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...ranging from $5 to $25. And many parents give their consent for an operation only because they know that if a doctor does not do it, some school chum is ready and willing. All she needs is a fat sewing needle, a couple of ice cubes (for numbing the lobe), and some thick white thread to keep the breach open...
...maintained for as long as 17 minutes had no appreciable effect on the stubbornly resistant pituitary. So he dropped the temperature inside the gland to between -170° C. and -190° C. With a probe-or sometimes with two, one in each lobe-held at this freeze level for 15 minutes, Dr. Rand's group has safely achieved the desired degree of pituitary destruction in more than 50 cases. Other neurosurgeons agree that for the pituitary, the supercold technique is "superior to all the rest"-such as scooping out the pituitary with a tiny, long-handled spoon, always...
...long ago as 1934 that some cancer patients for whom all other treatment had failed might be kept alive for several years by operations more drastic than any so far attempted. He began, usually in cases of stomach cancer, by removing most of the stomach, half of the left lobe of the liver, the body and tail of the pancreas, the spleen, the transverse colon and part of the abdominal wall. Of the first 100 patients, 19 lived for one to ten years, including a laborer who went back to doing a full day's work (TIME, March...
There are problems, of course. Every piercee lives in fear that sometime the earring will be yanked through the bottom of her lobe. Ear piercing provides a potential modern analogy of the ancient Chinese tortures, in which victims were suspended by their thumbs. One girl, hiking in the White Mountains, found that her earrings were so long that they kept catching on low-droping branches. Finally, she took to wearing a sailor hat for fear that she might keep walking some time when her earring was hooked on a branch a few feet back...
...does not charge for the piercing, but insists that the girl buy a pair of twenty-dollar earrings before she leaves. After the potential piercee picks out her earrings, she sits on a stool with her back against the wall, while the piercer jabs a thick needle through the lobe into the cork he is holding behind it. The pain is minimal, and the results are often the best of the three schools, because the piercer is so experienced...