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...Paddington Hospital where another operation was performed. A month later, she turned up at Fulham, where a staff surgeon recognized her. In the two years since then, almost always under a different name, Elsie has appeared at nine London hospitals. Dr. Richard Asher, who reports her case in the Lancet, is confident she will show up in another any day, if she is not under the knife right...
...surgical operations are older than those performed for cataract of the eye. As early as about 2000 B.C., the Code of Hammurabi ordained: "If a physician . . . open a tumor of the eye with a bronze lancet and save [the patient's] sight, he shall have ten shekels of silver ... If a physician open an abscess of the eye with a bronze lancet and the patient lose his eye, the physician shall have his fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract...
...Dowling of George Washington University reported that aureomycin was better than any other antibiotic for treating undulant fever (brucellosis), and that it produced good results against streptococcic and staphylococcic infections, scarlet fever, and a type of pneumonia that doctors sometimes call "primary atypical," sometimes "virus." The British medical journal Lancet has reported that aureomycin "has the widest range of activity of any known antibacterial substance...
...contributor to The Lancet, British medical journal, has thus hymned the Kinsey report...
...baffling epidemic in Dundee was reported in the same issue of the Lancet. Women were turning up at doctors' offices suffering from bullous erythema (reddish blisters) on their legs. The doctors wondered: Was it due to chemical burns? To a new skin disease? Dr. John Kinnear, of the Dundee Royal Infirmary, discovered and pondered the fact that all the women had been riding the same tram line. Dr. Kinnear inspected and confirmed a suspicion: bedbugs...