Word: adrenaline
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Last week Axis propagandists read the Eight Points of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill with a great flooding of adrenalin...
...patient, a middle-aged woman, was dying. She had just been brought in to the Jewish Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. She was a victim of Addison's disease, a slow decline of the adrenal glands which cap the kidneys, gush forth the hormone cortin and the supercharging adrenalin when the nervous system signals "Emergency!" No synthetic hormones or drugs had been able to save...
...attached electrodes to the man's brain and heart, tried vainly to stimulate them. He injected an adrenalin compound into the heart, meanwhile compressing the chest. No results. Only sign of life: when he struck the man's forearm with a rubber hammer, it twitched like a knee jerk. After two hours, Dr. Brickley pronounced him "dead beyond recall." Electrocution, said Dr. Brickley last week, kills in three different ways: 1) it heats the body abnormally, coagulating the blood; 2) it contracts the muscles, choking off the body's supply of oxygen; 3) it produces rupture...
...other before throwing him to the ground. By this time, someone had come up to distract the animal, and Balderas got to his feet, walked to the fence and collapsed. He was taken to the infirmary, where he died 50 minutes later after a fruitless injection of adrenalin and two blood transfusions. That was how death, as it must to all men, came to Alberto Balderas. KEN W. PURDY New York City...
...kind of breakfast cereal. The child lifted a spoonful, put it in her mouth. Her lips and tongue swelled like balloons. She fell into a spasm of coughing, began to suffocate, fainted. When the doctor arrived on the run, he saw at once what had happened, injected adrenalin. In a few hours, restored to normal, the little girl was scampering around as though nothing had happened. There was nothing wrong with the cereal except that it contained flaxseed, to which the child was violently allergic...