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...century of fascinating contrasts. Literature nourished. Corneille, Racine, Moliere, La Fontaine turned out their masterpieces; Pascal wrote his Pensees, Descartes his Discourse on Method. Medicine, meanwhile, was in a parlous state. In one year, Louis XIII was bled 47 times, got 212 enemas. Louis XIV got the same kind of treatment, but, despite everything his physicians did, he survived for 77 years. By that time, he had done his full part to prepare the deluge...
Private Segat testified: "It bled very much. I gave the knife back to the captain and threw the ear on the ground." Griffiths was quoted as saying: "That was quick." Next day, on Griffiths' orders...
...sometimes think," sang the Poet Omar, "that never blows so red the rose as where some buried Caesar bled." Few, if any. roses bloomed in the church of Spain's highland town of Viana where lethal and licentious Cesare Borgia was buried in March 1507. But over his remains, bled white by assassins' knives, rose a fine sarcophagus bearing the legend: "Here in little earth lies he who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand...
Some 50 belles from local colleges will be on hand Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week to provide needed assistance in soliciting blood donors. These same girls will tilt glasses with members of the most bled section in a cocktail party. Feature of the party will be a contest to select "The Girl We Bled...
...than the U.S. lost in three years of Korea). Almost all of the officers and noncoms are French, but the annual drain on trained officers has steadily exceeded the output of Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Aside from the toll of blood from a nation that had bled so much in two world wars, the war was costing France a staggering sum-$1.3 billion last year, of which the U.S. supplied $400 million plus direct delivery of war goods, B-26s and Flying Boxcars, World War II Bearcats and Hellcats...