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...Beginning. Betsey Barton lay in bed for a year doing nothing, growing feebler & feebler. Recently she has visited people "who sit in back bedrooms . . . because rescue work was not brought to them...." Rescue, she says, should begin the minute danger is over, or there will be a "serious psychic lesion which may result in total paralysis of the will." The trick is "never give food that is too strong for the weak-tea capacity," never assign a task at which the injured may fail-they may give up altogether. The Army's new rehabilitation program with its graduated exercises...
Each of Dr. Mahoney's patients was given an injection of 25,000 units of penicillin in the buttock muscles every four hours. Each received 48 injections. After 16 hours of treatment, the corkscrew-shaped spirochetes no longer showed up under the microscope in serum from the lesion. Dr. Mahoney was "stunned"; this is the first case on record in which penicillin has killed spirochetes, a higher form of life than bacilli. Yet the patients had no bad reaction from the injections...
...nobody thought that it could be worth anything else until the Day of Judgment." That Day arrived with World War I. Most of its victims did not recognize it. They failed to realize that the Russian revolution was an organic part of World War I-the first serious lesion in the civilized social body. The second was Naziism. Only slowly did men realize that World War II was what Europe's writers had been prophesying about. And then they realized it with panic rather than understanding. Instead of clearing up, the war's terrible innovations thickened "the blind...
George M. Cohan had an emergency operation for an abdominal lesion at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Ave. Hospital. His doctor called it "quite serious," added: "He's going to get over it." ∙∙ In Hollywood Jimmie Durante broke a rib playing the part of a moll in an Apache dance. ∙∙ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis lay in a Petoskey, Mich, hospital after a pneumonia attack. ∙∙ Oldtime Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece...
...World War I and the Spanish Civil War, dead soldiers, without any visible wounds, were found near the sites of heavy explosions. Sometimes bloody fluid trickled from their noses and mouths. Examination of the lungs showed hemorrhages, pleural lesion or collapse. Recently Dr. Zuckerman undertook for the Ministry of Home Security a series of experiments on pressure waves from explosions and the effect on lungs. Using piezoelectric recorders (crystals which convert pressure into electric current), he found that the blast from 125 lb. of high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance...