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...soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from the Graduate's Magazine. The editors were not lacking in brilliance, but, are gratia artis, they eschewed such fundamental principles of journalism as might have gained them a wide and interested public. Journalism curdled their aesthetics, and the Parnassine fluid of their though became distillate to the point of dullness...
...pressure of the Press drew a statement from Dr. Dandy, who, like every reputable physician, hates to have his private practice dragged out into the limelight. Said Dr. Dandy: "The condition is dangerous and not uncommon, but is not necessarily immediately fatal. There is a continual flow of spinal fluid into the brain cavity, and hydrocephalus is caused when there is an obstruction, bringing about a backing up of the fluid in the brain cavity. We will have to operate to form a by-pass to allow resumption of the free flow of the fluid. Such an operation is dangerous...
...ahead with an operation on the Trammell infant. After a 54-hr. study of the case Dr. Dandy began the operation, which lasted two hours, through the side of the child's head. He found that he need not construct a by-pass for the cerebro-spinal fluid. Sufficient was removal of an obstruction between the lateral ventricles, cavities of the brain which lie in the region of the temples. His report to the public: "The baby came out of the ether all right, and is taking her feeding nicely. The operation may be termed successful...
...creatures 'whose slightest glance spelt Death.' . . . We spoke of water always as the 'Precious Fluid...
Pantophagous is the shark. Its stomach is the ocean's garbage can. Its digestive fluid, dropped on a man's hand, will take off the skin. In over 30 years of shark-hunting off Hawaii, the U. S., Africa, the West Indies, Australia, Captain William E. ("Sharky Bill") Young has learned not to be surprised at anything he finds when he rips open a shark's belly. He has discovered tin cans, horses' hoofs, a small pig, bottles, parts of other sharks. Once, in a shark caught off Big Pine Key, Fla., he found...