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Head to Toe. Although any one of many body disturbances can hasten epilepsy, its essential cause is some damage to the grey matter of the brain, whether by tumor, abscess, infection, gunshot wound, shell splinters, or other accidents. Certain clusters of brain cells discharge electrical impulses to the muscles at an abnormal rate. This produces writhing and twitching. A tendency toward epilepsy runs in families; this may be due to some small quirk in the brain formation, together with an abnormal metabolism, faulty water balance, etc. Since electroencephalograms (charts of the electric waves discharged from the brain) can detect epileptic...
...Lepanto, which finally reasserted the dominance of Christendom over the infidel Turk, seems an uncomplicated affair. In it 208 low Christian galleys and six monstrous galleasses submitted 250 Turkish galleys to a parade of broadsides, sank 80 and captured 130. During the action Cervantes (Don Quixote) received three gunshot wounds, one of which maimed his left hand-"for the greater glory of the right," he said...
...there was some minimizing of damage in British statements. Undoubtedly, too, the North Sea, with its curtains of fog and blankets of cloud, is not a good place for Air Power to prove itself better than Sea Power. But the fact that the British risked their heavy ships within gunshot of Stavanger gave strong evidence of Allied confidence after a week of testing against Marshal Göring's sky terror. The safe landing in Norway of most of three divisions of Allied land forces added proof to confidence...
SOUTH PITTSBURGH, Tenn.--Twelve men suffered gunshot wounds--none serious--in a clash between members of rival coal miners' unions near the Battle Creek Mining Company today...
...Oklahomans. On April 22, 1889, a gunshot at noon opened the State's choice Indian Territory land to 20,000 settlers lined along the border. Racing frontiersmen found many of the best spots already occupied by border-jumpers who had got there "sooner." * In 1913, Carlton Chilton, then 17, grabbed $2,000 from a bank counter on the spur of the moment, while a clerk was out to lunch...