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...last week's Lancet, London's Dr. William H. J. Summerskill indulged in a tour de force of long-range diagnosis came to the conclusion that the fool may have been right. Physician Summerskill worked it out this way: Aguecheek was drunk every night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy...
Like many another medical journal, London's Lancet has printed reams of advice to doctors on how to behave toward their patients. Now the Lancet has let a layman turn the table and tell how the patient should treat the doctor. With tongue firmly planted in cheek, Londoner Marguerite A. Sieghart wrote...
...along with their fathers are likely to grow up sexually frigid, and when they marry they are candidates for indigestion and gallstones. Moreover, their husbands will probably take to drink or develop ulcers. These conclusions are reported by a Scottish physician in the eminent British Lancet. A painstaking Glasgow diagnostician, Dr. G. Gladstone Robertson did not go looking for patients to fit a prefabricated theory. Instead, he felt obliged to adopt the psychosomatic approach as the only way to explain the illnesses of hundreds of patients...
...simple nor as simple-minded as it sounds. The craving for tobacco must be understood and the dangers of nicotine appreciated before mere will power can separate a man from his pipe or his cigarettes. But it can be done. In the latest issue of the British medical journal Lancet, Johnston, a reformed smoker, tells...
...Lancet, Dr. Harold Ridley, London surgeon, describes the ingenious new technique for slipping a plastic lens into the eyeball. Only the front part of the lens capsule, with the jelly, is removed; the back part of the capsule is allowed to remain as a sort of frame to keep the artificial lens from drifting farther back into the eyeball. The plastic chosen for the job (Perspex, similar to the Plexiglas used for airplane windshields) is only half as heavy as glass and is not likely to sink...