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After an operation, Dr. Lund thinks, the patient should gently but firmly be told what has been found and whether he will live. "Dying patients usually have a fairly good insight into their condition and the shock of confirming this belief is not great...
...Offense Meant. The appearance of Jude the Obscure in book form (1895) was the greatest shock of all. A critic for the New York World denounced it as coarse "beyond belief . . . almost the worst book I have ever read. ... When I had finished the story I opened the window and let in the fresh air." Poor Hardy, mild-mannered and at heart probably the least coarse of British novelists, thereupon threw up his hands. He told his U.S. publishers to withdraw the book if they saw fit-"it is so much against my wish to offend the tastes...
...series of paroxysms, seven found "complete disappearance of symptoms to the present time-i.e., from eight months to 2% years." The eighth was relieved for five months, then relapsed. All the cured asthmatics were allergy victims (cases of non-allergic asthma were not helped at all by shock...
Probable explanation of the cure: the shock permanently increases the output and even the size of the adrenal glands, pouring greater amounts of adrenaline into the patient's blood to relax his constricted bronchial muscles...
...last week 1,870 of the 5,000 had successfully run the gauntlet, and 550 were already in training. Half of these clerical shock troops have had no more than a primary education. One was a coal miner, another a waiter, a third a warehouse clerk. By 1949 the Church of England hopes to have made 2,000 of them into clergymen, at a cost...