Medicine: One Way

A new French method for getting fed was described last week by the A.M.A. Journal (quoting Paris-Soir):

"Since the great food shortage, people are far more willing than ever before to undergo operations.. . . Today it is necessary to get one's name on a list a month or two before entering a hospital to reserve a place on the 'table.' An operation means 15 to 20 days being waited on in comfortable surroundings. . . . The actual operation is much more easily performed as there are no thick layers of fat for the surgeon's knife to hew through."

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