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Reading the Body. The doctors tell in detail how, given two patients with severe pain over the stomach, they may be able to tell which has a gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond...
...Gout is almost exclusively a man's disease, cancer of the gall bladder almost exclusively a woman's. People who get diseases that are more frequent in the opposite sex are likely to have many of that sex's physical and mental characteristics. The doctors mean no insult by this-they say it is the gynic (female) factors in a man that make him a good physician...
Died. Kaname Wakasugi, 60, Japan's Commissioner General for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair; of a gall-bladder ailment; somewhere in Japan...
Died. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, 81, famed surgeon, onetime president of the American Medical Association (1917-18); in Lake Forest, Ill. Dr. Bevan, University of Chicago surgical lecturer since 1901, originated the "hockey-stick" incision for gall-bladder operations, was one of the largest stockholders among Diamond Match Corp. directors (his wife was sole heir to Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber...
...displeased over an article O'Donnell wrote-facetiously sniping at U.S. censorship-that he informally awarded him a German Iron Cross. *Sample rumor: many pregnant WAACs have been shipped home from North Africa. Fact: three of 250 have been sent home, for 1) unsuitable temperament, 2) gall-bladder ailment, 3) legitimate childbirth...