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Joffroy had long suspected that there might be tombs in his neighborhood, but for years he could find no trace of one. This year he came across some stones plowed up by farmers, and his practiced eye told him that they were the lower layer of a Celtic burial mound about 40 yards in diameter. The rest of the mound, he thinks, was probably used by invading Romans to build a nearby road...
...deaf, one is shortsighted, one is smooth as candle grease; but none agrees with the next on what constitutes a human being. Is man to be defined by his jawbone? By his rational capacity? By his grasp of metaphysics? Or is the judge right when he muses (without a trace of cynicism) that the tropis must be animals because they are not cannibals...
...knowledge of [the biological details of] conception." Under hypnosis: "She soon regressed to a scene in which she felt she had just been born. She was choking from something wound tightly around her neck. She had no idea what this could be. I asked her to trace it. Her hand went up to her neck and then . . . down to the region of her navel-'It comes from my tummy.' " This patient also had an idea that she had been an unwanted child, and described two burning sensations when she believed that her mother had been trying to cause...
...American Negro, 1953 will walk right up the middle of every main street in America . . . You have done us all a great service and you have done it without a trace of precocity or philosophical hogwash...
...hormones (ovaries and sometimes adrenals) and perhaps by giving male hormones; the second requires the opposite treatment-leaving the estrogen sources intact, perhaps even giving extra estrogens and cortisone. To type a patient's cancer and decide whether the ovaries should be removed, the doctors have only to trace her pattern of calcium excretion through a single menstrual cycle...