Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time Dr. Russell La Fayette Cecil, professor of clinical medicine at Cornell University Medical College and chairman of the New York Committee for Pneumonia Control, told the Kings County Medical Society that he had used M. & B. 693 with striking success in several cases of highly fatal Type III pneumonia. Moreover, said Dr. Cecil enthusiastically, the new English tablets appear to be effective against many types of pneumonia, may soon supplant expensive serums which have to be made specifically for each type of the disease...
LAWRENCE (UP), November 21: Henry G. Vaughan '90, probably the best known horseman of the East, suffered a fatal heart attack aboard a train here tonight...
...Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs : with style. The scenes from Pinafore and The Mikado are performed with a second-rate stock company's fatal excess of enthusiasm. The picture of Queen Victoria has none of Gilbert & Sullivan's crushing dead-pan mockery of pomp & circumstance. Only Actor Bruce knows the secret, plays Gilbert with a polished griffness that the old boy himself would have acknowledged with a snort of delight...
Sulfanilamide tablets and injections work wonders with gonorrhea, meningitis and various streptococcic diseases. But sulfanilamide combined with other drugs may prove fatal, as Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, 67-year-old pharmaceutical manufacturer of Bristol, Tenn., discovered last year when his "Elixir of Sulfanilamide" (sulfanilamide dissolved in diethylene glycol) killed over 100 people (TIME, Dec. 20). Kin of the victims promptly started civil suits, to date have collected more than $150,000 damages from S. E. Massengill...
...method of identifying the virus was simple: suspensions of brain tissue taken from fatal human cases were injected into the brains of young Swiss mice. Two days later the mice showed "ruffled fur, slowing of activity, alternating with convulsive twitchings," and other symptoms similar to those of equine encephalomyelitis...