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...British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai to present one of those peace-plans that the British Government is tireless in proposing. It was not to the Japanese Ambassador that Sir Hughe was rushed by the rest of his party (all uninjured...
Cats used to get 50 centavos a day "liver money." When the late Depression-remember the Depression ?-was at its worst, a reduction was ordered in the foreign technical staff, and salary cuts for those that remained. Now, cats are foreign staff, in that they do not come under any of the Argentine labor laws or the contract with the labor federation. And if a cat's a good mouser, he sure has to be a technician. It was unanimously decided not to fire any of the feline personnel, but they did have to stand a salary...
...Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease which until recently was found only in the remote Bitter Root Valley of Montana and the Snake River Valley of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The woman's skin was dotted with typical pinpoint hemorrhages, her lungs and kidneys congested, spleen enlarged, liver degenerated, genitalia hemorrhagic. Two other people in the vicinity have died with the same symptoms since June 1, and the panicky Capital immediately implored district and public health officials for advice on how to avoid a devastating disease which is new in the East...
...patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania is suffering from a serious liver complaint following gastric hemorrhages and an attack of grippe. Announced Professor Eppinger...
...slit open the sac, the pink buttocks of a five-month fetus protruded. In attempting to lift out the fetus, Dr. Brunkow felt some resistance: the mon ster's head was attached to the sac. Dr. Brunkow cut this attachment and then found that the inclusion's liver, which had developed outside its body, was also attached to the sac. Another nick of a scalpel freed Barbara Stobie of her ab normal burden and permitted Dr. Brunkow to close her up. He left the skin-like sac within her, to be removed at some more favorable time...