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...patients' motives. For advice in sticky cases, he may turn to a psychiatrist. Members of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recently did just that when they invited Dr. Wayne E. Jacobson of the University of California at Los Angeles to discuss motives for the commonest cosmetic operation of them all: rhinoplasty, or "nose-bobbing...
Irrational Individualism. The commonest mistake about the Holy Ghost, writes Canon Dewar, is to say "it" instead of "He." The gift of the Holy Spirit is "not the bestowal of a thing but the action of a person." The classic description of the Holy Spirit appears in the Gospel of John, where Jesus is quoted as promising to send the disciples "the Paraclete"-a Greek word variously translated as "comforter," "advocate," or "counselor"-to remind them of Jesus' teaching and to guide them to truth. At Pentecost, the 50th day after the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon...
Beriberi is a deficiency disease (lack of vitamin B1), commonest among Orientals, who eat polished rice, and Western alcoholics, who eat next to nothing. The Japanese have described an acute form of the disease, which kills suddenly by causing the heart to collapse; they call it shoshin (from sho, acute damage, and shin, heart). Now West meets East as two Detroit doctors report in the New England Journal of Medicine that shoshin beriberi may kill U.S. alcoholics...
...them, the old church is the kind of hearth and headquarters it once was for the immigrant Irish. If pastors in the suburbs have trouble reaching their parishioners, Father Kern and his assistant priests do not. All through his 17-hour day, parishioners surround him, and the commonest phrase he hears is "Tengo una molestia" (I've got trouble...
...staff of Aesculapius over its main entrance. One-third or more of its 1,350 inmates are in for crimes involving violence-from robbery to rape and murder. Most of the rest are burglars, bad-check artists, or men caught up in the narcotics racket. Alcoholism is the commonest complicating factor, and a prison branch of A.A. offers help. By administrative fiat, but for no good psychiatric reason, all homosexuals rated as "effeminate" or "aggressive" are housed in a single cell block. These are among the least hopeful cases...