Word: appendixes
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Lamphere claimed to have been a professional wrestler billed as "the Indiana Cyclone," also a ship's carpenter and bosun's mate. He told Munchausen stories about having had his appendix removed aboard a tugboat in Ireland, of exploratory kidney surgery in Japan. A crosshatch of surgical scars showed how often he had been under the knife. Disarmingly...
...half years ago he went commercial, farmed out subcontracts for the gruesome gewgaws to a few ex-patients, now makes more money peddling the trinkets than he does as a radiologist. Some of his bestselling designs: a coiled white intestinal tract with a bright red, about-to-burst appendix; gastric resection with or without ulcer; a uterus and Fallopian tubes with cancer of the cervix (available, like the rest of the doodads, as earrings) ; a Daliesque assortment of unblinking, bloodshot eyes...
...because they command such high fees. But in Pasadena, Dr. Robert H. Pudenz has successfully removed several brain tumors, both malignant and benign, from dogs and cats. A Florida vet has removed worms from a dog's pulmonary artery with the animal under hypothermia. A dog has no appendix, so is spared the need for an appendectomy, but he has a human-type caecum (a dead-end pouch at a turn in the intestines), which is the favorite hideaway of the whipworm. Vermifuges often cannot reach the worms there, so most vet surgeons do a caecectomy...
Throne Room. Baja California's economic importance lies in the northern one-tenth of the 780-mile-long appendix, in the area between Mexicali, the capital, on the east, and Tijuana, near the Pacific coast. Cotton is king there, and Mexicali, its population nearly tripled (more than 160,000) in five years, is its prosperous throne room. It has U.S.-style real-estate developments, with hundreds of houses in the $10,000-to-$1 5,000 class. Last year 55 gins, six cottonseed-oil mills and four compresses-the world's biggest concentration of ginning facilities-swallowed...
...planned tests of nuclear weapons to take a calculated "risk for peace" by urging their governments to stop all such tests for a trial period-even without prior international control agreements-"in the hope that others will do the same." Attached to the report was a 3,000-word appendix on the dangers of radioactive fallout. Among other vague goals cited were the halting of nuclear weapons production under controls and "more effective mechanisms for peaceful settlement of international disputes...