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...Madame's description of herself: "I have always been plain, and since I had smallpox have become more so, and my figure is outrageous. I am as square as a dice, my skin is red, tinged with yellow; I am beginning to go grey and have pepper-and-salt tresses; there are wrinkles on my forehead and round my eyes, my nose is as crooked as it always was, and is pitted with smallpox to boot; as are also my cheeks, which are pendulous with large jaws and jagged teeth. My mouth is changed, too, having become larger...
...simple as this is in principle, the method is complicated in procedure by many difficulties: 1) What is to be put back into the body to take the place of the missing blood? A salt solution properly proportioned−the "normal saline solution" frequently injected after hemorrhages−can act as substitute for a considerable quantity of blood. A balanced amount of this is contained in the tube of the artificial kidney so that the blood, entering, pushes the solution ahead of it into the vein at the receiving end. 2) How is the blood to be cleansed without...
...Salt Lake City...
Having won the javelin-throw and the 10,000-metre run, the Finns held off until the pentathlon. Then Lehtonen again goaded the Americans and a Hungarian, Sonfay, sprinkled salt in the wound by taking first and second respectively, from R. Legendre. Up went the blue and white ensign on the victory flagpole a third time...
Revived, feeling vigorous from the salt air and his Sibylline words, he suddenly set out for the Capital?two days before he was scheduled to leave Atlantic City. The immediate result was to bring out on the floor a bill to abolish the Railway Labor Board...