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...none of this has saved James from becoming for many readers simply an exquisite specimen of nineteenth century intellectual history. He wore a beard when beards were fashionable--an unfashionable capitulation for a Harvard man. And his massive work on psychology contains only one tiny paragraph on sexuality--an equally unfashionable oversight today. Sex leads to Vienna, however, and few writers complement each other as well as Freud and James...
Major General Sickles promptly had his eg packed carefully in a coffinlike box and ent it, with his formal calling card bear ing the legend "Compliments of D.E.S.." to the new Army Medical Museum in Washington. After pathologists had ex-mined the specimen, the bone was preserved. For years, on the anniversary of he amputation. Peg Leg Sickles went to visit his missing member, often taking friends to join in the macabre ceremony...
...fever persisted; but only on the promise that it would be a short stay was Mrs. Roosevelt persuaded to go into Manhattan's famed Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, a specimen of Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow-the body's main factory for various elements in the blood-was taken by puncturing a hipbone with a big hypodermic needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought...
...water. There, in a half-hour, health workers easily caught 70 mosquitoes (Culex nigripalpus, one of the species now known to carry SLE virus) in a small trap. At another lake, irate residents stoned health department workers who were trying to trap ducks merely to draw a blood specimen for virus testing...
...framed the chorale set with two unhackneyed examples of the favorite Baroque practice of juxtaposing a free and a strict form: the Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor and the Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. The latter fugue is a fine specimen of the many Bach fugues that are first-rate works wrought from an unpromising theme. Bach disproved the maxim, Ex nihilo nihil...