Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French troops opening fire upon Paris civilians, brings to my mind a curiously parallel story which was widely circulated after the coup d'état of Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux!"-"My wretched cough"-which was misinterpreted by a zealous officer as "Massacrez tous," or "Kill everybody...
...deuterium atoms in their stead. When luminous bacteria of the kind that produce phosphorescence in the sea were placed in heavy water at Princeton, their output of light was dimmed because their oxygen consumption was slowed. Pathologists at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital hoped heavy water might prove fatal to cancer cells, were disappointed to find the cells vigorous as ever after prolonged immersion...
...often fatal intestinal ailment which produces diarrhea, mouth ulcers, anemia, great loss of weight...
...Hcndrick's metabolism has let increased amounts of calcium seep into his muscles and bones. Some think the disturbance may be in the parathyroid glands, which regulate the body's use of calcium and phosphorous. The disease, which produces circus sideshows' "stone men," is usually not fatal to adults, sometimes causing only a local ossification. Some physicians think there is a long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs and upper arms are already hard as rock, if his parathyroids can be stimulated to check the flow of calcium. But most of the doctors...
Mayo Clinic's Dr. E. C. Kendall was interested in another gland, the adrenal. When a derangement cuts off its flow of hormone, its possessor turns yellow, grows weak, wastes away. Called Addison's disease, this rare ailment was ordinarily fatal until physicians learned to supply the needed hormone from animal sources. But obtainable hormone is scarcer than the disease, and many a victim has died for lack of it. Last week Dr. Kendall reported that Mayo Clinic has isolated the hormone in pure crystalline form, analyzed its chemical composition. With this knowledge chemists may be able...