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They are all suffering from marasmus, the disease of advanced starvation. All have dysentery. Many carry ugly red tails hanging out of their bottoms, the medical term for which is "prolapse of the rectum." Most are too weak to stand. Some are too weak even to sit up and so they just lie there, often face down on the floor (there are not enough beds to go around), their faces resting in pools of mud and diarrhea. Those who have the strength to cry do nothing but cry, and the sound will never be forgotten by anyone who heard...
Joined by bone and flesh just above the buttocks, they had separate organs except for the rectum. Neither felt the other's pain, and their circulatory systems were largely separate. But a few, small arterial branches "appeared to connect," said Pathologist H. Paul Wakefield, and evidently transported the cancer. He could not be more specific, because his autopsy did not include a microscopic examination of the twins' connected tissues. They had requested that they not be separated even after death-so that they could be buried in a special coffin in the state in which they had lived...
...come for doctors to reflect on it, says the A.M.A., because the entrenched practice can be fatal. The University of Minnesota's Dr. Justin J. Wolfson recently reported a case in which an eight-day-old baby died because the thermometer had pierced the wall of its rectum. Actual perforation of the rectum appears to be rare, says the A.M.A., but "injury to the rectum by the thermometer is not uncommon. Severe bleeding, ulceration, abscesses, hematomas and scarring have been reported." Autopsies indicate that rectal injury may occur in more than 6% of patients...
Bannockburn broke the English hold in Scotland. In 1327, the stupid Edward was at last deposed-and somewhat later dispatched with a red-hot poker that was rammed up his rectum. In 1328, the two powers signed a treaty that recognized Scotland as an independent state and Bruce as its rightful monarch. The next year, "Guid King Robert" died of leprosy. His work was done-indeed, done better than he knew. Three centuries later, in 1603, his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson, James Stewart, was crowned King of England...
...predict the A.C.S. statisticians, 47,000 Americans (40,400 men and 6,600 women) will die of lung cancer, with 52,000 new cases expected to be diagnosed. Cancer of the colon and rectum is still more common, with 73,000 new cases anticipated, but less deadly - 43,000 deaths expected. Even if lung cancer is detected before it has spread, only 21% of victims survive five years after surgery. If the cancer has already spread at the time of operation, the five-year survival rate drops...