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...consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost equal numbers. Against these facts is the strange one that the death rate for London men school teachers is twice as high as for the women. "In some paradoxical...
...Lungs. The lungs have become the seventh most frequent locale for cancer. (First is the stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem...
...From stylistic evidence, since no inscription was in sight, it was obvious that the cave chapel dated from the first half of the sixth century. Although many of the carvings were wrecked, there remained enough to show that they belonged to the same period as the great caves at Lung Men and Tatung Fu. The cave was important for two reasons; first, because of the great carven elephants that stood at each corner of the central core pillar, and the Jataka tales sculptured on the walls, features unique, it is believed, in the sculpture of the period; and secondly, because...
...went there with a companion 18 months ago, and on Feb. 28 last year, apparently as a result of religious mania, shot herself in the lung after attending a Holy Year service. She recovered after her life had been in danger, and for the family's sake it was represented as an accident, but in view of what happened today the truth had better be admitted...
Meanwhile a letter was received anent a significant adventure which befell Mr. Felix Morley, able correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Morley described how he had seen a big U. S.-built locomotive, "camouflaged and armored," come steaming into the little station of Ching Lung Chiao in lieu of the regular train to Peking and miraculously almost on time. "Instead of the nondescript trucks and decrepit coaches of the ordinary Chinese 'accommodation,' there was in tow just one caboose-like vehicle, labeled in clear English a ' wrecking car.' And equally in accord with China as she is today were...