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...proud, slight (105 lb.) man, known professionally as Tom, is the owner of one of the strangest stomachs in existence. This stomach was the subject last week of a book (Human Gastric Function; Oxford University Press; $4.75), by Drs. Stewart Wolf and Harold G. Wolff of Manhattan's New York Hospital. Says famed Physiologist Walter B. Cannon in his foreword: "The functions of the stomach have never been investigated with the detailed care, the skill and ingenuity" that Drs. Wolf & Wolff display in their researches on Tom's stomach...
...sewer laborer during the depression, the bleeding got so bad that he had to let a surgeon remove some of the bleeding tissue. The convalescence was long and Tom had to go on relief. This hurt his pride-he had always managed to support his family. So Drs. Wolf & Wolff asked Tom to better his lot and do medicine a service by taking a job as clean-up man in their laboratory and serving as an experimental subject. Tom was worried and broke, but it took four months to persuade...
...doctors do almost anything to him. His was a peculiar schedule: with or without breakfast, as the doctors prescribed, he lay all morning on the examining table, sometimes napped; in the afternoons he tidied up the laboratory and ran errands. Human Gastric Function reports what happened when Drs. Wolf & Wolff plied and prodded Tom's stomach with whiskey, glass rods, hot & cold water, mustard, drugs, air pumps. The book is a minute record of his stomach's color, secretion and activity when Tom felt relaxed and secure, when he was full, hungry, worried or angry. Some of Wolf...
Reaction. Psychologist Wolff noted some striking facts about his guinea pigs' unconscious self-analysis : when they failed to recognize themselves, they reacted much more strongly to their own voices or features than to others'. They emphatically liked or disliked their own features (usually they liked them), discussed them more volubly and emotionally if they did not recognize them. Dr. Wolff concluded that unconsciously these self-critics did recognize themselves, and their self-criticisms, which often differed in degree but not in kind from the judgments of their fellows, represented their subconscious appraisals of themselves...
Psychologist Wolff reports that this finding was confirmed by an anthropologist studying African savages. The anthropologist photographed Kais tribesmen, who had never seen themselves in a mirror, and showed them the pictures. One tribesman, when he saw himself, screamed: "Kill this disgusting animal...