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...Aside from those surgical disorders resulting from accidents, it is practically axiomatic that what the osteopathic physician calls a 'lesion' is a predisposing factor in the production of such disorders. Such a 'lesion' affects the circulation of blood and lymph and thus becomes responsible for producing in the tissues the point of lowered resistance in which germs locate and propagate. It is also responsible for a region of stagnant blood, or some-times of stimulated circulation, which may result in excess or defect or perversion of the growth or function in structures directly influenced...
...death three days later he lay in coma. Dr. Philip Goodhart, professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia, came in on the case as consultant. He found Schaaf's left side paralyzed. The condition of the fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible. But there was much swelling...
...made his first flight in 1912 with a schoolboy in Rutland, Vt. Shortly afterward the friend cracked up, killed himself and a passenger. "Casey" abandoned flying until 1917 when the Army called for aviators. Already he had been rejected by Army, Navy and Marines because of a heart lesion. (He had twelve varsity letters for athletics, had been physical director at Montclair Academy, N. J. for two years.) For the air service "Casey" was examined by an enormously fat doctor who tried to show how he wanted Jones to bend over, jump up & down. "Casey" guffawed, pointed to his record...
...Leader Haardt the ribbon of a com-mander of the Lesion d'Honneur; to Explorer Williams a chevalier's ribbon...
...year, was what President Hoover's automobile got last week as it carried him from his Rapidan camp back to the White House. At the camp remained Herbert Hoover Jr. According to Dr. Joel T. Boone, Herbert Hoover Jr. has tuberculosis in its initial stage. The lung lesion is small, full recovery is anticipated. (¶To be U. S. Minister to Liberia President Hoover last week, as custom dictated, appointed a Negro, Charles E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia State College for Negroes...