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Sometimes, but seldom, a hemorrhoid heals itself through the development of a blood clot, which shuts down the vein. Surgery in moderately severe cases is minor and like a treatment for varicose veins of the leg: a chemical is injected to harden the vein's walls and make it close down. In more severe cases, part of the vein and surrounding tissues must be cut out. Operations used to be dreaded because of infections and slow healing. Now they are safer, thanks to antibiotics, and healing is quicker...
...doctor's nationality. In U.S. hospitals, the preferred approach is to "extinguish" the offending veins by stripping them out in tedious operations that take up to twelve hours and leave the footsore surgeon himself a candidate for varicose veins. In Europe, doctors reach for hypodermics, hoping to harden the veins and cure the trouble quickly with simple injections...
These risks are virtually abolished if the surface veins are extinguished, leaving all the blood to return through the deep internal veins, which can easily carry the added load in most cases. The same result, say European phlebologists, can be attained for most patients by injections that sclerose (harden) the veins, and close them...
...backdown? Ho apparently realized that by trying and executing the U.S. aviators he would alienate many of the sympathizers he has in the West. It was safe to assume that he was impressed by the argument that mistreatment of the prisoners would tend to harden the U.S. mood and create a more unified, favorable attitude toward a tougher war. Since he counts on the U.S. finally tiring of the war and pulling out, he would thus be working against his own aim. Beyond this, the reaction from other countries must have raised for him the unwelcome prospect that he might...
...What Do You Want?" The upshot of the Mississippi march may well be to harden positions on both sides of the black-power quarrel. The militants can be expected to cite the savagery of white Mississippians as proof that Negroes can hardly expect much in the way of help from whites. The moderates can be expected to counter, as Ralph Abernathy, one of King's aides, did recently, with the argument that "if the philosophy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is carried to its ultimate conclusion, we are eventually going to have...