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...occupied territories who will be making the pilgrimage.) Arab governments are so concerned that this week they will hold a 20-nation meeting in Cairo to decide on the best protective measures. The comma-shaped bacterium (Vibrio cholerae) responsible for cholera finds its natural breeding ground in the human bowel, and is excreted in the feces. The disease can be contracted only by drinking-or bathing and washing in-water containing human fecal matter, from fruits or vegetables contaminated by such water, or from food prepared by unclean hands. If all the world's water supplies could be cleaned...
Dietary fiber, said Dr. Ruth M. Kay of the University of Toronto, consists of those parts of edible plants that are resistant to the human digestive enzymes, so that they pass through the system virtually unchanged until they encounter bacteria in the large bowel. There are three basic kinds of fiber. The simplest is cellulose; the four-chambered stomach of cattle can readily digest this form, but the single human stomach cannot. Next comes a group of polysaccharides, consisting of complex sugar chains. The third type is lignin, which not even intestinal bacteria can degrade. Fiber of any kind provides...
...Hubert H. Humphrey, 66, indefatigable Minnesota Senator, former Vice President, and 1968 standard-bearer of the Democratic Party; with inoperable pelvic cancer; in Minneapolis. Doctors discovered a malignant tumor on Humphrey's pelvic bone during a four-hour operation to remedy a bowel obstruction. The Senator's cancerous bladder was removed last October. Although his condition is described as terminal because it is inoperable, doctors refused to say how long he might live. They plan to treat the tumor with chemotherapy to slow its growth, and expect that Humphrey will be able to return to the Senate...
...someone seeking advice about what to do for an ache, for example, or who is secretly worried about occasional bowel bleeding or vague chest discomfort, the search through a standard handbook may produce more anxiety than the malady; the reader must hop from disease to disease until he finds one with symptoms that match his complaint. Symptoms adroitly solves that difficulty. It catalogues not only diseases but, in a separate section, their symptoms as well. Thus if the reader has, say, a swelling in his leg, he simply looks in the table of symptoms under the heading "Bones, Joints, Muscles...
...bladder, Whitmore had to install extensive new "plumbing." Taking the dangling ends of the ureters-the two tubes that normally carry the urine from the kidneys to the bladder-he connected them to a piece of "piping" or conduit made by snipping out a small piece of bowel. While preparing the conduit, Whitmore and his colleagues had to work with exceptional care, keeping intact the blood vessels feeding that excised section of small intestine. He then led the conduit to a small opening in Humphrey's skin that the surgical team had created just to the right...