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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Hitler is now on the borderline, concluded Dr. Brown, may stave off insanity for many a long speech, defeats in the field and the consequent necessity for making "terrible decisions" may push him over the edge into stark, staring madness, or even suicide...
...Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate measure, never before tried in the history of surgery: complete amputation of the cancerous lung in one stage. An incision was made down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed...
...skin to show its telltale sign, and even the keenest observers cannot scent death by this crude method until a short time before the end. Last week Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital described a machine that notes the shadow of death long before death's hue is seen...
Blood deprived of oxygen darkens, gradually turns purple. Dr. McClure attaches a sensitive photoelectric cell to the ear, and the cell, literally seeing beneath the skin, records minute changes in blood-color long before the anesthetist notes approaching collapse. Thus vital stimulants can be given the moment the patient needs them...
Most yeomanly English novelist since Galsworthy, Sir Hugh Walpole was finishing a long Elizabethan adventure story "to keep myself quiet." He was also doing semi-official propaganda work. Said he: "Because people realize the futility of war much more fully than in 1918, the result may be some new sort of realistic idealism...