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...fistulae. They also found the caustic useful in the cure of pilonidal sinus (cavity under the skin wherein grows hair). They open the sinus with a scalpel, then douse the hole with the solution. Thereafter it is easy to ream out the destroyed tissue. The patient need not be bedridden...
...work under compressed air. Close to death, he rented a room on Brooklyn Heights and watched the construction through a telescope. His voice failed him and he wrote his instructions and specifications. By the time the Bridge was opened in 1889 Col. Washington Augustus Roebling was bedridden, blind in one eye. and a bitter, hard...
...cluttered office in "John Martin's House," on the 14th floor of a Manhattan office building. He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story as he goes, finally completing a drawing...
...more of the scientific congresses which make the Christmas school holiday a clamorous medley of "I saw that . . .", "I did this. . . ." In New Orleans, together with 33 smaller, affiliated organizations, met the American Association for the Advancement of Science.* Its incoming president, Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University, was bedridden in Manhattan, vexed that he could not take over what the public assumes to be the most eminent office in U. S. Science. In his absence his colleagues discussed the 100 & 1 topics infiltrated with Science. Items...
...race-track Satan, a ginmill Beelzebub; he has a bottle of red-eye liquor in his hand and is not stingy with his drinks. The Wayworn Traveler, the Pilgrim of Faith, the Troubled Soul, the Poor Blind Girl, the Pilgrim of Hope, the Widow and her Children and the Bedridden Woman all get past him safely. Walking up to St. Peter's throne, they sing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," "Bye and Bye I'm Gonna Lay Down My Heavy Load and other true songs, while the Devil jumps up & down waving at them with...