Word: death
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less generously, the rebels shot two Cuban "counterrevolutionaries" one dawn last week in the first executions since June by the firing squads that have put 557 Cubans to death this year...
Firming up the Star's editorial positions, the editorial writing staff emerges periodically from the ivory tower to gather firsthand information, plant ideas, and lobby for the Star's causes. Last month, alarmed about a rising traffic death rate, the Star ran a lead editorial deploring the carnage, then sent Editorial Writer James W. Scott out for earnest conferences with Police Chief Bernard Brannon and other authorities. Result: a new 36-man traffic detail and a series of frontpage editorials backing up the police department's campaign...
...agreed with the Greeks, adds, "Partly that is why they were patients." There is evidence that even in such lowly animals as rats, the loss of hope is the fatal factor in stress experiments. And in man Dr. Menninger notes what he calls the "Queequeg phenomenon" of "voodoo death" in Moby Dick. Most physicians, he believes, have seen cases where the loss of hope has hastened death...
...often after major surgery, especially among elderly patients in accident cases, there is truth in the sour jest that the operation was a success but the patient died. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two physicians described a method of treatment that slashed the death rate among such patients at Birmingham Accident Hospital in England's Midlands...
Commonest cause of death in these cases, they found, was blocking of a pulmonary artery by a traveling blood clot that had developed in the leg veins. This often undetectable process killed 40%-50% of patients over 50, who died after fractures of the leg, thigh or pelvis. So Drs. Simon Sevitt and Nrall G. Gallagher took 300 consecutive admissions of patients over 55 with broken thighs, and treated half of them with the anticoagulant phenindione to see whether it would prevent blood clotting and the fatal lung damage...