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From handsome Dr. Max Minor Peet of the Universityof Michigan, the Congressmen heard of cutting abdominal nerves which stimulate the kidneys, adrenals, spleen, pancreas, liver, stomach and intestines, of cutting dorsal sympathetic nerves which affect the colon, rectum, bladder and genital organs. Dr. Peet operated thus on 60 patients to relieve their high blood pressure. Results...
Over and above petty infractions of community rules which may be settled by fines or minor purifications, there are certain great crimes which are so rarely committed as to be considered abnormalities and hence generators of baleful influences which may affect a whole village. Among various tribes such horrendous offenses may be looking one's mother-in-law in the face, pronouncing a husband's name, milking of cows by a woman. Almost everywhere one of the greatest crimes is incest. Dr. Lévy-Bruhl believes that philosophers looking for some obscure moral or esthetic urge...
...millionaires and possibly on down the line to ordinary people with an income of more than $5,000 per year. Thus what President Roosevelt started as a tax program to encourage "a wide distribution of wealth" began to take shape as a full-bodied revenue bill which would affect a majority of taxpayers...
Coach McGall's theory of the Negro's protruding heel is disputed by such an eminent anthropologist as Johns Hopkins' Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz. Reason: The protrusion consists of fat and connective tissue, does not affect leverage...
...difficult to estimate how many persons in this country are so poor they are unable to purchase the food necessary to keep them in health. . . . But something like 20,000,000 American people are living near or below the threshold of nutritive safety. This condition, if continued, will surely affect the health of the race. The income of these people must be raised or the price of food lowered...