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...Lucio & Simplicio Godino, Filipinos, were born on the Island of Samar in the Philippines. Due to a monstrous accident of gestation, they were firmly bound at the tail bones by a link of muscle, fibre and intestine. Simplicio's digestive tract ended in a blind pocket of gut about half an inch short of where it should have ended. He drained through the connecting link into his Brother Lucio's normal colon...
...does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates in the stomach, which the patient soon learns to treat like a bag-pipe's bellows. At his will he burps up puff after puff, makes sounds. First controlled sounds are "gut," "hut," "hoot," "who." To the uninitiated they sound like strangled grunts. Although these people eventually learn to enunciate clearly, their voices always have a flat, lifeless tone...
...Pharmaceutical Association on "Rational Use of the Earthworm for the Evaluation of Vermicides." This profoundly agitated Pharmacologist Paul Dudley Lamson of Vanderbilt University, caused him to write a vigorous rebuttal which Science published last week. Snapped Professor Lamson: "The human Ascaris [roundworm] is a parasitic animal living in the gut of man. It has no respiratory or circulatory system in any way related to that of an earthworm. It can live under anaerobic [without free oxygen] conditions. The earthworm is a free-living species inhabiting not man, but the ground. It feeds on substances in the soil rather than those...
...taken in by a pious uncle who soon goes to a Mental Home for Clergymen. Befriended by the fashionable Mrs. Molly, Ben is sent off to school, studies for the ministry, is disgraced in his snobbish surroundings when cranky Miserable Sarah leaves her home in the village of Dirty Gut to visit...
Bulk in the Gut. "This is the first time the true nature of the action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk...