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...reach any of these organs the surgeon must cut through the peritoneum, a closed sack within the hollow of the abdomen. The outside coat of the peritoneum resists germs, but its slippery, serous inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place. The peritonitis which results is exceedingly hard to cure. A high percentage of peritonitis cases die, and many of the remainder suffer lifelong pain and debility from adhesions. Because of the difficulty of coping with this form of infection all surgeons cock hopeful ears toward any serious colleague who promises them a preventive of peritonitis...
Loew's State: "What Every Woman Knows"--from J. M. Barrie's play. A human drama executed in the best artistic skill by Brian Aherne and the excellent Helen Hayes. Fine serous human drama and a noble work of the cluematic...
...makes any dent upon Harvard undergraduate life. Even in the fall of 1924, the student's participation in the campaign consisted more in torchlight processions and belligerent and meaningless statements to the press that in cool consideration of the issues involved. One debate at the Union was the only serous event which brought any large attendance, and a number of speeches at the Liberal Club completed the educational side of the campaign...
...disease attacks every kind of vertebrate-fish, reptile, bird and animal. Domesticated animals acquire it-dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, hogs, cattle. They, like humans, may suffer variously from tuberculosis of the lungs (phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis), of the intestinal tract, lymphatic glands, serous membranes, bones, skin, brain, Fallopian tubes, uterus, spleen. But whether, except in the case of milk-yielding cows, they can transmit tuberculosis to humans is still a moot point in medicine...
...eliminate this serous possibility of an over-supply of officers in some branches, and an under-supply in others, some definite form of proportioning must eventually be resorted to, which of course implies a control over schools by a central authority that is non-existent at the present time. As the quotation given previously suggests, the University is large enough to maintain a number of units representing the different divisions of service. However, for the sake of thoroughness and efficiency, smaller schools would necessarily be limited in the number of different units which they could profitably estabish...