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...Testament, where 27 chapters of Leviticus are cut down to little more than a page of fairly large type. Digester Ross deletes "indelicate episodes" like the incest of Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19, 29-38), modifies others, such as Nicodemus' reference, in conversation with Christ, to the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Digested Bible | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Temple. His followers, mosty women, wore the world's clothes, sat tatting when they should have been minding the children. The young people played croquet and practiced to be mediums. James Prince won all but Isaiah and the oldest Templers to his belief in Hunger-ology, Care-ology, Womb-ology. By the time he came to construct a Machine Messiah according to the directions of Benjamin Franklin and the Association of Electricizers, the children were quarreling and no one in the Temple was working. The Machine was a complicated tangle of magnets, coils and rods. "Good 'Lantic Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Table-Rapping Utopia | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Method is simplicity itself: insertion of a big hollow needle through a quarter-inch puncture into the cavity of the abdomen. The mobility of the liver, stomach, intestines, bladder, ovaries and womb is such that Dr. Ruddock can poke them around by means of a slender telescope inserted through the hollow needle. He can inspect them by the aid of electric lights placed at the tip of the telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peritoneoscopy | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Renaissance painters belonged to the Guild of Physicians & Apothecaries, because they bought supplies from drugstores. Artists thus developed friends among doctors, and had opportunity to study anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci made more than 750 anatomical sketches, was the first to depict the true position of the fetus in the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Medical Artist | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Emerald findeth no Memling Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting . . . CONTRA NATURAM They have brought whores for Eleusis Corpses are set to banquet at behest of usura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contra Naturam | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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