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In case of tuberculosis, pneumothorax may be a beneficial accident because it immobilizes the diseased lung, gives it a chance to rest and heal, and may enable the tuberculous invalid to attend his ordinary affairs. When doctors realized that good fact, they invented a procedure called artificial pneumothorax.
Frank Jerome Tone and Edward Goodrich Acheson made emery wheels obsolescent. An impure oxide of aluminum, emery was used for grinding in the time of the Pharaohs, was still the best abrasive industry had until 1891. In that year Acheson, looking for an artificial abrasive, found on the tip of...
There are some sights in the world so beautiful that, on observers not incurably hardboiled, they have a physical effect like a cool plunge on a hot day. Most people are so affected by their first sight of the glow and glitter of myriads of artificial stars projected on the...
Two years ago Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote a moving, nostalgic novel of the Florida scrub, South Moon Under, in which proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with...
"I was astonished," wrote Dr. Berardinelli in the September American Journal of Surgery, "to see a baby, not quite full term. . . . Though the face was covered with dirt, I found no dirt in the mouth or the nostrils. On holding the infant up in the cold air, it started to...