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...Hiatus. With the small patient under ether, Dr. Swan made a huge incision to open chest and abdomen. He pulled out a loop of the jejunum (uppermost part of the small intestine) and cut it off near the duodenum. Carefully he worked the long, free end upward to the diaphragm. For a time Dr. Swan had to turn his attention back to the dangling duodenum (see chart): he made a T-junction by stitching its attached bit of jejunum into the intestinal tract a couple of feet below the original cut (making a natural outlet for digestive juices...
...first exposures showed what the doctors had been looking for. At the hiatus, where the esophagus (gullet) passes through the muscular diaphragm from the chest cavity into the abdominal cavity (see diagram), the muscle was weak and part of the upper stomach had herniated or bulged through it. How the hernia started, they could not tell (it might have been there in milder form since birth), but there was no doubt that it was the cause of much of the Pope's recent gastritis, hiccuping and vomiting. The hernia held food like a pouch, instead of letting it pass...
...doubtless right. Except for one 17-month hiatus when a Socialist coalition held power (1947-48), the wily old political juggler has run Japan since a few months after the surrender. Under the U.S. occupation, he was a man of tough but resilient rubber: since sovereignty, he has been a man of iron. Critics call him malicious, contemptuous, autocratic. Even his admirers sometimes agree-adding, however, that he can be witty, urbane and charming. Recently, a top U.S. diplomat was asked: "Whom do you regard as the five most influential men in Japan?" The answer: "Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida...
Representing the new faculty members, Wilder spoke up for the need to find new religious approaches. He was especially concerned with "the hiatus between theology and the modern world," and spoke of a need to balance theological scholarship with "the equipping of the minister with a dynamic message...
...year football hiatus ended last last week with the Athletic Association's announcement that the freshman team will play Princeton this year, for the first time since...