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...Majesty sat, instead, almost day and night at the bedside of her husband. Five physicians were in constant attendance. The Emperor Yoshihito, a chronic mental and physical invalid, was struggling with a minor bronchial disorder which it was feared might complicate his other afflictions...
...pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered ten sons and daughters, spent 20 years amassing proof for his hypothesis, published The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), died in 1882 having sorely suffered from chronic indigestion for 40 years...
...found that the English peasants liked potent effects from their medicines. They even used horse remedies on themselves. So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap. Aloe is bitter and astringent, and is used under prescription for some cases of menstrual irregularities, chronic constipation, atonic dyspepsia and worms. It is apt to be intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches after a drop of three feet, thus affording a measure...
...boards in the executive who should represent them, there will be unrest, discontent and even disloyalty, permeating the whole organization." - Dr. Christopher G. Parnall, Rochester (N. Y.) Gen eral Hospital. Personnel. A low standard of morale and tawdry esprit de corps in hospital organizations is "the pernicious anemia among chronic hospital ills. . . . Discipline in a hospital must necessarily be strict, but I am not in sympathy with militaristic methods. Meagre pay does not encourage loyal service. Too long, in hospital administration, have we been expecting something for nothing. . . ." - Dr. Parnall, further. Equipment & Supplies. Too many sizes and kinds of bedpans...
...single plane of two-dimensional Flatland, the inhabitants can, of course, see each other (and all things) only as straight lines. Fortunately, however, every Flatland creature has luminous edges; and there is chronic fog in Flatland, through the obscurity of which the slant of lines is quite apparent and a Figure's angles and shape can be inferred without feeling all his sides'. The Flatland women are mere straight lines, like needles. Hence they are brainless; hence also dangerous, for they would puncture a male Figure upon collision. Quaint rules for women result. Society is ranked...