Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black-haired, 21-year-old schoolmarm named Edith Maxwell testified last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that such was the innocent beginning of the fatal night of July 20, 1935. The trial judge, a jurist of 76 with stand-up collar around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed...
...called to attend a sturdy French huntsman named LeTourneau who had accidentally blown off his face with a shotgun. The man's family and another physician, an old Army man, agreed with the young doctor on the best thing to do. Dr. Warriner gave the mangled huntsman a fatal dose of morphine...
...surgeon, declares that no part of the body, with the possible exception of the uterus, is as troubled by such malignant growths as the brain. Dr. Gushing has made the acquaintance of more than one thousand brain tumors and one of the commonest, most rapidly growing and most immediately fatal types-the spongioblastoma-comprises one-third of his cases. Surgical removal is sometimes effective but there is desperate need of early diagnosis. Last week Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre reported a diagnostic technique for brain tumor which he deemed more sensitive than...
...drug, by a selective action on the brain centres, inhibited a person's ability to withhold information from a questioner. In addition it was found that scopolamine, like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten facts from the unconscious. Police hesitated to use the stuff because it was fatal if mishandled and because evidence obtained by means of it was not directly admissible in court. In Birmingham, Ala., however, an alert district attorney cornered a gang of ax murderers by running down leads gained from scopolamine confessions. In Kansas City, an alert detective chief named Thomas Higgins heard about...
Last week Drs. Walter Lincoln Palmer, 39, of Chicago, & Paul Silas Woodall, 27, of Montreal, said that cinchophen must go into the medical discard. Their reasons: "Very small doses given for very brief periods of time may prove fatal. Discontinuance of the drug upon the appearance of even the slightest symptoms does not ensure a favorable outcome. The first symptom usually recognized is jaundice, and withdrawal of the drug at this stage even with appropriate therapy does not prevent a fatal termination in approximately half of the cases...