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This gutty description, which introduces a technical discussion of tropical amoebae, comes from the distinguished pages of the oldest medical journal in the English language. It is a fair sample of the unvarnished style and the deadpan humor that mark the weekly Lancet as the sprightliest and most outspoken voice in medical journalism...
...their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about 80,000 prostitutes*(the Lancet's estimate...
...particular importance: not one of the TB cases in the vaccinated groups was of the especially dangerous meningeal (brain covering) or miliary (throughout the body) variety. There were 81 cases among children with positive tuberculin reactions - a significantly higher rate than among the vaccinated. Said London's Lancet: "The results are unequivocal...
...virgin births possible in nature? In guppies, yes, because the female may be a hermaphrodite and, by producing sperm as well as ova, fertilize herself. In rabbits, fatherless reproduction has been observed after the doe's ovaries are chilled. But in humans? Maybe, says the Lancet of London, and last week doctors went to work to see whether there are living proofs in England today...
...does occur at all, it is extremely rare," said the Lancet, However, this is no reason for dismissing the idea entirely: "A rare event which is hard to prove is likely never to be reported at all if it is also . . .'known' to be impossible . . . Possibly some of the unmarried mothers whose obstinacy is condemned in old books . . . may have been telling the truth...