Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This coming shore leave promises to be a big one. Indications point for a capacity crowd at the Regimental Informal at the Statler on Saturday. Hank Cornelius promises to be on hand, even if it means forgetting his vow to solve the Wopeco Co. case and or die...
There was a time when a patient whose popeyes (exophthalmia) were getting worse (e.g., certain thyroid cases) could get no help from surgery, might go blind or even die. Then in 1931, Dr. H. C. Naffziger began making temporary windows through foreheads and removing some of the bony framework around the back of eye sockets. This made room within the head for swollen eye muscles, let eyes sink into place. He got good results in over three-quarters of his cases...
...which is blood with the red corpuscles removed, is often a lifesaver. But a really bad hemorrhage produces a dangerous reduction in red corpuscles, which carry oxygen to the tis sues. Though a man can get along on less than half the ideal number of red corpuscles, he may die from lack of oxygen in his tissues if the shortage gets acute...
...blood went to the American hospitals where blood is nice to have - whole blood is the best of all pick-me-ups for a weak patient - but not really needed. If unused for 20 days or so, the blood is thrown away; by then the corpuscles begin to die...
...Died. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern - the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit...