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>Sensitivity of the eye, like that of other sense organs, decreases with distention of the viscera. "It is important in responsible reconnaissance operations that the visceral organs of the abdomen and the pelvis should not be overcongested."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dark Eyes | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

Excited as a hungry terrier was Bryan Patterson when erosion revealed a deposit of old bones in a pasture near London Mills, 111. Out of the glacial blue clay came parts of a hind leg, pelvis, forefoot, vertebrae, a molar tooth. Back in Chicago's Field Museum, where he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jefferson's Big Lion | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

The box represented a woman's abdomen. Inside, homemade in pink and red, were models of all the organs involved in childbirth. The pelvic cavity was an oval fruit basket. The walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery Made Plain | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Of every 100 babies born, one is likely to weigh ten pounds or more-big enough to cause obstetric difficulties unless the mother's pelvis happens to be extra large. Doctors do not know why some babies are born big, but they are convinced that mothers cannot control the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Babies | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

As swashbuckling Colonel Roscoe Turner, 44, unscathed in many a deathdefying air race and three-time winner of the Thompson Trophy, drove from the Indianapolis municipal airport, a motorist neglected to stop at a blind intersection, crashed into him. Result: a broken pelvis, possible chest injuries.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 5, 1940 | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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