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...dome. To its completed crypt go from 5,000 to 10,000 people on ordinary days, 25,000 to 50,000 on feast days. Of the cures registered and checked by physicians before and after every health-seeking visit, none is a "first class" miracle involving growth of new bone tissue. Typical "second class" cures reported from the Oratory are restoration of sight lost from atrophied optic nerves, healing of tuberculosis, cancer, gangrene, paralysis, rheumatism. Now 89, frail, wrinkled Brother Andre is still officially no more than "caretaker" of the shrine. To visitors who seek him out as they...
Some surgeons inject alcohol into those nerves. The alcohol paralyzes the nerves and makes them as useless as though they were severed. But few surgeons are adept at hitting the quarter of a square inch under the collar bone for which they must aim their hypodermic needles. Dr. Marvin thinks little of the procedure, but said it is the only sensible thing surgery has done for angina pectoris or coronary disease...
...farmer digging a cellar near Irkutsk made a find which brought Soviet archeologists on the run. In ground which they called 30,000 years old, they found the skeleton of a young child wearing a necklace of bone beads. From the necklace depended a small plaque apparently carved from a mammoth tusk and bearing the image of three entwined snakes. Nearby were bone weapons and 20 bone images of women, perhaps goddesses. Archeologists outside Russia doubted the antiquity of the deposit, principally because even the crudest bone weapons had not come to light before the late Paleolithic period...
...told us that an excellent staff succeeded in rising to the tide of the Teutonic Plague and making its large number of patients comfortable. He told us that German Measles requires the minimum of medical attention so that he lived safely. Apparently therefore, there is but one bone to pick at present, why couldn't he have let us know earlier...
Therefore, if you are wise, and if you like books for themselves or for what is in them, proceed directly to this noble bone-yard, and--if you are not already too late...