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Trypanosomiasis, or Chagas' disease, caused by a parasite spread by ticks, bed bugs, pig flies. Commonest in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, the trypanosomes invade the lymph nodes, thyroid, heart muscles, bone marrow, etc., cause fever, heart disease, sometimes insanity. There is no effective cure...
...cases were fragments of bomb casing, sometimes as large as walnuts. Common abdominal injuries included bowels scorched by incendiary bullets, coils of intestine cut to ribbons by flying glass, or loops of gut hanging out of slashed stomachs. Sometimes, although no missiles penetrated the abdominal cavity, indriven fragments of bone did as much damage as bullets. Concussion of a nearby bomb often produced fatal internal hemorrhages, torn spleen and liver. "Immersion blast"-internal injury inflicted on sailors in the water near an exploding depth bomb-sometimes produced ripped intestines, peritonitis, bleeding from ears and mouth...
...Today China is democratic to the bone and to the heart. The freedom of their own country is the first Chinese war aim. But after the Axis is defeated, they will still have freedom in their country-no political and economic or military outposts, if you please, belonging to other countries...
...misnomer. The circular guillotine amputation is not a 'chop' operation." It consists of cutting around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned; the stump is sprinkled with sulfanilamide, left exposed so that there is no closed pocket for bacteria to breed in. Later on, the skin is pulled down over the bone...
...dread of scientists and statesmen to contend with. The Church most scrupulously anatomized Bernadette's miraculous possibilities, but was also most bewildered how to handle her. She was funneled off into the untouchable silence of a convent, where she devoutly suffered the slow agonies of tuberculosis of the bone and died at 35. But at her exhumation, in 1925, her body was as uncorrupted as every word she had spoken in life...