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...death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood it was clean. Little possibility of infection. The child probably would live...
...which let us chant an antiphonal amen. And continue. For continue we must, now that Dreiser has given us the big rhythm. But perhaps we are hitting our man too many times on the same blood-clot. Nevertheless we remember that there have been in years a gone double-decker novels whose power increased with their size. Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil" was such a one; it captured a dinky little Nobel Prize or something of the sort. Then there was Fielding's "Tom Jones"--pretty good for an old-timer, what...
...qualities of blood is that when exposed to air it coagulates. This is a very necessary quality for when there is a lesion of a blood vessel, the blood issuing from the wound tends to clot, preventing further loss of blood. In certain persons this quality of the blood is absent, so that if they suffer even a slight wound they may readily bleed to death. The disease is known as hemophilia...
Died. Godfrey Charles Isaacs, until last fall managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., brother of Rufus D. Isaacs, Earl Reading, Viceroy of India; in London, of a clot of blood on the brain...
...silent crowd which had gathered in the street. From a yellow slip of paper in his hand he read the official bulletin announcing that Mr. Wilson's death had taken place five minutes earlier. Many years before he entered the Presidency he had suffered a thrombosis, a blood clot in the artery of one leg. While still President of Princeton University, he had practically lost the sight of one of his eyes from a retinal hemorrhage. At the time when he took office in 1913, his doctors were skeptical whether he would live through a four-year term...