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...duodenum, eleven inches long, is the beginning of the long small intestine. Here enter juices from the gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood...
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Surgeon Bevan's professional reputation is soundly founded. He originated the "hockey-stick" incision to expose the gall-bladder for operation without cutting through important nerves. He was one of the first to propose lengthening the period of premedical and medical education from three years to seven, considers his help in bringing about the longer course one of his "greatest accomplishments." He has been professional lecturer on surgery at the University of Chicago since 1901, professor and head of the surgical department of Rush Medical College since...
Professor Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch, 41, director of the department of metabolism of Montreal General Hospital, who, especially interested in diets for diabetics, guides research on the parathyroid gland, gall bladder, kidney, liver...
That conditions of this sort should exist where students, supposedly having a degree of intelligence somewhat above the average level, will have the gall to attempt to obtain a subsidy from an institution of higher learning for carrying on their work, is deplorable, indeed. In no instance do graduate students deserve to be subsidized save as a reward for merit in recognition of outstanding achievement...