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Across Dr. Brooks's abdomen Surgeon John Frederick Erdmann, 71, cut a twelve-inch opening. Surgeons John J. Moorhead, 61, and Harold Denman Meeker, 60, functioned as assistants. Standing on stools and craning their heads over the surgeon's shoulders were Diagnosticians Alexander Lambert, 74; Emanuel Libman, 63; Harry Aaron Solomon...
...weather was clear and brisk, and the doctors, looking prosperous and vigorous, buckled down to the convention business of protecting their profession from laymen, of protecting laymen from quacks, of learning many a fact about disease. Some 300 men reported their last year's research. Dr. Emanuel Libman delivered the Billings Lecture (TIME, June 10). Study of 236 scientific and 225 commercial exhibits absorbed all the doctors' remaining hours...
Instead of pain normally caused by a disease, a hyposensitive person may feel only pressure, burning sensations, numbness, prickling, tingling. "Such symptoms as pruritus and ticklishness need special study in this connection," says Dr. Libman. "That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain...
...hyposensitive may feel no normal symptoms of a disease until accidental conditions build up his sensitivity. Sensitizers: "worry, fear, anger, sorrow, fatigue, diversion of attention, joy, focal infections, and endocrine influences (especially the menopause), trauma, meteorological changes." As an example Dr. Libman cites the case of a Viennese doctor who, when a soprano took a B note a quarter of a tone too high, suffered a severe attack of pain in a tooth that had never before been painful. On the following day that doctor's dentist found the tooth decayed...
...Libman's method of detecting a patient's degree of sensitivity: he gets up, walks around the room, accosts the patient. "What seems to be the matter with you?" The patient tries to explain. Dr. Libman apparently pays little heed. He pats the patient's head, glides his right palm down the patient's neck, slyly presses his thumb, first against the tip of the mastoid bone ("Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?"), then against the styloid process just below the ear, "Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt...