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...Louis Emmet Mahoney of Los Angeles prevents gas pains by giving patients all the food which they can comfortably eat right after their operations. His theory: "The human intestinal tract is a muscular tube, the mucous membrane of which secretes digestive ferments and the motility of which is largely dependent upon these ferments and the presence and character of the food material in the bowel. Activity of the liver, the chemical engine of the body, and the secretion of bile is greatly influenced by the amount and the variety of ingested food. Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid...
Sept. 1: "Discover that my threatened blindness is an acute 2-diopter presbyopia which has rushed on me in a period of ten days-an accompaniment of the muscular enfeeblement of the grippe, according to [Dr.] George Derby. Specs for me henceforth...
...gracile, rosy-fleshed women floating in a pale blue, white-clouded sky. Another, Afternoon, showed the same figures wan and drooping in a nimbus of yellow light. Evening, on which Artist Carroll was streaking soft browns and blacks last week, shaped up as a galloping white horse with a muscular male draped on its back, one arm encircling another ZaSu-Pittsian female (see cut}. "There is no complicated message in this set," explained Artist Carroll as he put the finishing touches on his first big mural job, financed by a $5,000 gift from Ernest Kanzler & wife, sister...
...test, Dr. Clark described some of the effects which 54½ sleepless hours had on his students: "The faculty which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and their judgment of color erratic. Muscular coordination was low, tests of writing, aiming a gun, and hitting a nail on the head showing a great loss of accuracy. But there were periods when the boys seemed to make brief comebacks to alertness, something like 'second wind...
Despite the fact that he went to the Harvard School of Business Accounting, warbler Dick Powell, who takes the part of the wealthy scion of the Ames family in "Colleen", does not realize that six and nine make 15 until Ruby Keeler, of the baby voice and muscular legs, reminds him of that fact. From this start a beautiful friendship grows until we find these two winsome lovers, Donald and Colleen, united after tremendous difficulties in the same clinch which so pleased old maids and unrequited lovers in "Forty-Second Street", "Annapolis Farewell", and "The Gold Diggers...