Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This baffling disease of unknown origin afflicts an estimated 250,000 in the U.S. with varying degrees of incapacity, usually in the legs and arms, often involving speech and vision. Damaging the nerve sheaths in the brain and spinal column, multiple sclerosis may take many forms, from a quickly fatal attack to a 30-year lingering illness punctuated by long periods of relative freedom. Histamine, vitamins and a variety of drugs have aroused high hopes in some researchers and their patients, only to prove disappointing in the long...
...what these mechanisms may be. One clue lies in acute starvation, as distinguished from long-range underfeeding. If Dubos takes well-fed mice, but omits their feedings for 30 hours (not long enough to cause obvious physical distress), they become suddenly susceptible to artificial infections, which prove rapidly fatal. Some chemicals also have this effect-notably sodium citrate. (By contrast chronically undernourished mice can maintain a normal level of resistance...
...Traders Oil Mill Co. The cake had apparently been poisoned by chlorinated naphthalene in a machinery lubricant used by Harrell's feed company (TIME, March 30, 1953). Legally the cattlemen might have had a hard time collecting; chemical tests on dead cattle rarely show the naphthalene because the fatal quantities are so minute. Furthermore, since most feed contracts are on a handshake basis-with no writ ten guarantee of purity-the company might have squirmed out from under on the ground that the oil company making the lubricant had changed the formula without notice. Instead, President Harrell assumed full...
Increased mobility, then, presents a somber problem to the Dartmouth officials. When a student was killed last spring, his demolished car was displayed on the college green. This was followed only by another fatal accident. So, despite mumblings from the student body, increasingly stringent auto regulations are being imposed on the 30 percent of the students who drive...
...easier than with the Brodies, of whom only Rodney Dee survived. But doctors still could not be sure that the girls did not share a single sagittal sinus (a major vein returning blood from the top of the brain toward the heart). It was this defect that proved fatal to Roger Lee Brodie. Before surgery is attempted, the twins will be studied for months by the same medical team that operated on the Brodies...