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Breeding Place. Although they no longer suffered from typhoid themselves, they were human breeding grounds for typhoid germs, could pass the disease on to others.* The only treatment then known was the removal of the gall bladder (where typhoid germs often breed), an expensive and disagreeable operation that did no good if other organs such as the intestines had also become breeding places...
Last week, the Hungarian Communists had the remarkable gall to invite the Vatican to negotiate an agreement on the status of the Hungarian church, "regardless of the personal case of Mindszenty." The Vatican rejected the overtures as a "puerile maneuver." Earlier, the Holy See had declared: "Whereas it has been dared to lay hands sacrilegiously on a very eminent cardinal . . . all those who have performed the aforesaid crime have incurred excommunication . . . and have been declared infamous...
...probe is small enough to reach into the ducts that drain the gall bladder and liver. The device was perfected late last August; by last week it had been used successfully in 25 operations. It will not locate stones without an operation, but Dr. Kirby hopes soon to have a gadget that will...
Board President Louis La Bow said the meeting had been "a pleasant social gathering . . . most interesting." But another board member was more frank. Said he: "The musicians have the gall to say-and believe-that they have had to play down to conductors for years, and that they must maintain their own high standards. I'd love to hear Beecham's reply to that . . . They're musical mobsters. They're out to have Ali Baba for a chairman-there are just 40 of them...
...medicine's unsolved mysteries was recently unraveled with the discovery that the malaria parasite hides for 10 days in the human: 1. Appendix. 2. Gall bladder. 3. Brain. 4. Pancreas. 5. Liver...