Word: cadaveric
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"It is due to the high arsenic content of the soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright...
Two Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions...
"I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and...
Charles liked his leech. The man had a visible vitality which often translated itself into swift rages and quick passes with the dagger at his side. It is not recorded that Dr. Harvey's blade penetrated anything more eventful than frogs, birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things...
In St. Louis, candles watched over a woman's cadaver; her son sobbed angrily. Dr. August H. Sante had refused to make a night call on the dying woman. He, 61, had for years been trying to reduce the numbers of such night calls. They were arduous; really, few...