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...frigidity, try caviar and red peppers, both rich in the reputed aphrodisiac vitamin E. Even better are "limited doses of dry wines." Or for a special lift turn on suitably sensual, rhythmically erotic background music such as Ravel's Boléro and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. If all else fails, why not shudder a little with an electric vibrator, used sparingly, of course, so that "a woman will not become more attracted to it than to her husband...
...operation by ignoring good nutrition and relying solely on antibiotics to guard against infection. All too often, the postoperative neglect continues until the patient reaches an advanced state of malnutrition. Of 80 patients studied at the University of Alabama, 14 were hospitalized for more than three weeks without receiving vitamin supplements, although their symptoms suggested that they might have been undernourished...
...grew steadily weaker, languishing in a hospital for 50 days until the doctors realized that he was suffering from a severe protein deficiency and scurvy; only then did they begin giving him the extra nutrients he needed to recover. He was more fortunate than another patient who received no vitamin supplements during 35 days in the intensive-care unit after open-heart surgery. He lost more than 30 lbs., developed irreversible malnutrition and died...
...intended to teach techniques, are doing an adequate job at Harvard now. But even they might benefit from additional philosophical input. Is the medical school, for instance, giving adequate attention to the medical philosophy of the school of Cos (where Hippocrates practiced), which emphasized, as today's nutritionists and vitamin therapists do, the harmony of the body with its environment and of its several elements among themselves?...or is it too much mired in the philosophy of the school of Cnidos, which saw medicine as the exorcising of demons (done today by drugs or salpels...
...from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft-man's excruciating equivalent of bed sores, their condition was far from critical when they were picked up by a Korean fishing boat 1,500 miles from the site of the sinking. The Baileys-he, a 42-year-old printer's clerk...