Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stirred was Utah's ordinarily placid New Dealer Elbert Thomas that a "vision" came to him in bed. He got up at 2 a. m. to write a speech which he delivered next day in the Senate. "To attempt to coerce is fatal, to attempt to outwit is disastrous," thundered Senator Thomas. "Presidents will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the Senate of the United States." When Senators rushed up to thump Elbert Thomas' back, congratulate him, invite him to lunch, he weakly smiled that he wanted to go home...
...most violent and fatal of infectious diseases is tetanus or lockjaw, caused by the tetanus bacillus which dwells in earth, manure, intestines of many animals, rusty nails and tools. The germs usually enter a dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes...
Every year about 1,200 people die from tetanus in the U. S., many of them in the South because of greater exposure to the germs from walking barefoot. Although 70% of tetanus cases are fatal, the disease can usually be prevented by injections of tetanus antitoxin given right after a wound has been dressed. But once the disease gets to the central nervous system, tetanus antitoxin does little good...
...FATAL DESCENT-John Rhode & Carter Dickson-Dodd, Mead ($2). A meticulous Scotland Yard inspector and a theorizing police surgeon solve the shooting of a London publisher in his private elevator. Humorous, with an ingenious solution of the hermetically-sealed-room problem...
Rare in the U. S.. but widespread in Europe and Asia, anthrax is highly fatal, infectious disease conveyed to man by Bacillus anthracis, which infects sheep and cattle. Germs usually enter the body through infected meat, hair, and hides, produce abscesses, swellings, even gangrene and peritonitis...