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One of the most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than...
In a word, by destroying states essential to it, we destroyed the balance of power upon two continents . . . To the cool-headed and skillful manipulations of our calculating former ally, we innocently responded in exactly the way they wanted us to. I submit to you that in the destruction of...
Although there were M.D.s (including surgeons) on Northwestern's team, first comments by other surgeons on Dr. Graber's paper were sharply critical. Bad results from early operations, they argued, were uncommon, and happened because the surgeon was not as skillful as he should have been. Apparently it...
Democrats watched Alexander's skillful showmanship in exasperated frustration. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome, and young (35), Bill Alexander already commanded a devoted following for his dynamic sermons. In his church, dressed in a cutaway, he prowls back & forth on the platform, crouching like a boxer (he was...
Texans swarming into Dallas for the State Fair last week found cattle on the walls as well as in the stalls. The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts was featuring a brand-new show of eleven cattle paintings by Texas' Tom Lea, a report-in-oils skillful and observant enough...