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...moles. Dr. Affleck found that moles occurred most frequently on the face and neck, next most frequently on chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs. Black cancers appeared most frequently on the legs, arms, face, neck and back. "Highest incidence," noted Dr. Affleck, "is apparently in those areas most subject to trauma, the foot and the great toe being the most frequent sites." The dangerous years: 21 to 70. When a pigmented mole turns into malignant melanoma, the change may show in several ways...
...hyposensitive may feel no normal symptoms of a disease until accidental conditions build up his sensitivity. Sensitizers: "worry, fear, anger, sorrow, fatigue, diversion of attention, joy, focal infections, and endocrine influences (especially the menopause), trauma, meteorological changes." As an example Dr. Libman cites the case of a Viennese doctor who, when a soprano took a B note a quarter of a tone too high, suffered a severe attack of pain in a tooth that had never before been painful. On the following day that doctor's dentist found the tooth decayed...
...have the genital malformations in the region of the cyclonic infall and along the storm tracks. Is it not likely that these malformations, which would tend to diminish in frequency in an older, permanently domiciled population. . . appear here because a new population not previously subject to such climatic trauma would yield a relatively larger number of malformations of this type...
...Ogden is no fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities, as when he writes about James Joyce's Work in Progress as: "intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation . . . oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse . . . clangorous calembour . . . kaleidoscopic recamera . . . logophilous Birth-trauma . . chronic serial extension
...been this rumor: Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh Jr., 17-month-old son of the No. 1 U. S. hero, is deaf and so has not learned to talk. Cause of the affliction was supposed to have been the pre-natal drumming of airplane motors in his ears, causing a trauma, while his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, continued to fly during her pregnancy...