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Modern methods listed by psychiatrists of Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, who are currently studying suicide problems, include hanging, drowning, inhaling gas, jumping from high places, cutting throat or wrists, piercing heart, shooting, poisoning. Doctors and chemists prefer poisons, policemen and soldiers firearms. Inhaling the carbon monoxide from a running motor's exhaust is an increasingly frequent method...
...likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots tingle as a shark's fin cut the water near the swimming leopard. The shark struck, threw the leopard clear of the water, holding to his hindquarters...
...Chicago restaurant, Gerald Bodine clutched his throat, loudly demanded the manager, swore that something he had eaten was stuck in his gullet. An x-ray revealed a brad lodged below the tonsils. After an operation to remove the brad, Gerald Bodine put in a damage claim. An insurance adjuster allowed the claim, but the company discovered that smart Gerald Bodine had mulcted insurance firms ten times for gulping nails, brads, tacks, pins...
Professionally he is rated a speedy, crackerjack general surgeon operating on "anything below the throat." The cliche is misleading. He has done notable re search on the pituitary gland (in the skull) as well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...
...with gynecology and other abdominal subjects. In June his latest work will be published: Electrosurgery. With the collaboration of Dr. Grant Eben Ward, assistant in clinical surgery at Johns Hopkins, he is recording his long experience with the electric knife in operations dealing with the skin, nose, throat, chest, abdomen, genitourinary system, central nervous system...