Word: autopsist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along a street, or standing in talk with a friend, or sitting with a magazine. Suddenly a look of surprise and terror wells into his face. He clutches at his heart, droops, collapses, in a few minutes is dead. "Heart failure," announces the ambulance doctor. "Coronary thrombosis," reports the autopsist. "A blood clot clogged one of the principal blood vessels of the heart muscle and caused it to fail," explains the family doctor. Not every victim of a heart attack dies instanter. But doctors almost universally are pessimistic about a heart victim living long thereafter. And the survivors live...
...cardiac end where fresh food comes in to the pyloric end where digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...
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