Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...created its greatest endeavors for woman-the Caesarean section for her unbornable child. McDowell invoked the bold invasion of the abdominal cavity for the removal of the great new growths that made for women untimely graves. This presaged all of the marvelous surgery of the peritoneal interior. It is vision commanded by courage that sails into the domain of curative surgery. The art and genius of J. Marion Sims with the silver-wire suture made lacerated woman whole. The victim of vesicovaginal fistula was no longer a prisoner in her own house. She is rescued from her wretchedness...
...Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, was thinking last week that war again was imminent over Europe Cried he, speaking before the Chicago Association of Commerce: "The speed of the world has increased so fast that a lot of people can't keep up. Their training and vision are still those of the horse age. Now the Government is send ing fine stallions out to the western plains to breed horses for the cavalry. You might as well go to war in a horse and buggy. This is a machine age, and war hereafter will be waged by technical...
...Night Vision--Color Blindness," Professor Boring, Emerson...
...Vagabond began armed with the firm resolve to provide his gentle readers with an introduction to Professor Boring's lecture on Night Vision. It seemed proper to have a slight knowledge of the subject, something awe-in-spring even if superficial. So he set out, diligently to plumb Night Vision's mysteries. His searching hand paused before the shelf and drew down "The Science of General Psychology," by Wheeler, a good and solid book, of some six-hundred pages, fitted with two indices, charmingly adapted to the pose of earnest endeavor. But somehow, as his finger ran down the index...
...animals other than primates have their eyes in the front of their faces (the young human fetus also has its eyes at the sides of its head). Because their visual fields do not overlap, they do not have binocular vision. The visual fields of hares and rabbits overlap behind their narrow heads, an essential for such hunted creatures. But they do not have stereoscopic vision. Their brains are insufficiently developed for that refinement...