TIME
April 8, 1966 12:00 AM GMT-5
HOSPITALS The Rectal Thermometer
Near dawn every morning, a nurse walks into the hospital room, wakes the patient and subjects him to what for many remains a humiliating procedure, although it has become routine: insertion of a rectal thermometer. “The importance of this entrenched practice,” said last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, “is so universally accepted that, like the mechanics of normal breathing, it is rarely discussed or even considered. Read More...
The lighting of the Olympic cauldron on the River Seine on July 26 will mark the beginning of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and the end of a two-and-a-half-month torch relay designed to ignite enthusiasm across France for the games.
First lit in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on April 16 as an homage to the ancient version of the Games, the torch arrived in Marseilles, France, three weeks later via a three-masted ship. Read More...
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