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In the human body there are now seventy vestigial structures, e.g., vermiform appendices, useful in the lower life but worse than useless in man.

There it is, to be reckoned with, like the coccyx, the pineal eye, and the vermiform appendix. And a too consistent attack on it may lead simply to its inversion, to a vindictively pro-foreigner attitude that is equally unwise. The second sort of aggregatory ideas, running very often across the boundaries of national ideas and in conflict with them, are religious ideas.

Paul, or Socrates would have insisted, and stuck to it, that he bit it first. He must have had what no book could give him an ancestor who knew how to sit. Men there were whose social status was visibly signified by the abbreviation 'Gent. appended to their surnames. But already this was becoming a vermiform appendix, and the nineteenth century did away with it.

A pentacrinoid Echinoderm, with a complete jointed stalk, is developed within the larva of Antedon. Is it not possible that the larva of Crossopodia may have developed a vermiform Echinoderm? With respect to the Phylogeny of the Arthropoda, I find myself disposed to take a somewhat different view from that of Professor Haeckel.

"If my vermiform appendix is to be removed, I'd rather have Mr. Burke do it with a chisel and saw than any surgeon I know; and I won't take ether either, because it is such a satisfaction to see him work."

Several women who, years ago, were confronted with removal of the ovaries, are today the joyful mothers of children. Many of our former patients, who were treated by "Old School" physicians for acute or chronic appendicitis and were strongly urged to have the offending organ removed, are today alive and well and still in possession of their vermiform appendices.

Vengeance, instinct of. Venus Erycina, priestesses of. Vermes. Vermiform appendage. Verreaux, M., on the attraction of numerous males by the female of an Australian Bombyx. Vertebrae, caudal, number of in macaques and baboons; of monkeys, partly imbedded in the body. Vertebrata, common origin of the; most ancient progenitors of; origin of the voice in air-breathing.

The vermiform appendix, so necessary to the bone eaters of a carnivorous age, has no part in the physical economy of a later and more highly-evolved generation. The pineal gland and the pituitary body are adjuncts of the brain whose functions have long been in latency. The Anastatica hierochuntica, commonly called the Rose of Jericho, is a wonderful example of functional latency.

The Winner was in the galley adding to his girth with an immense gelatin dessert that filled a good-sized tureen. "Is she short for a native Terran?" Brion asked. "The top of her head is below my chin." "That's the norm. Earth is a reservoir of tired genes. Weak backs, vermiform appendixes, bad eyes. If they didn't have the universities and the trained people we need I would never use them."

It consists of a thin, straight, fleshy stem, with alternate rows of polypi on each side, and surrounding an elastic stony axis, varying in length from eight inches to two feet. The stem at one extremity is truncate, but at the other is terminated by a vermiform fleshy appendage.