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Word: fatalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fell silent. None showed signs of food or other poisoning. No intestinal parasites have been found. The victims were not neurotic. The only clue: many went to bed after a heavy meal, which might cause wild dreams. It has been suggested that the terror conceivably could lead to a fatal "reflex shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nightmare Death | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...have been many reports of sex crimes, some against children, committed under the influence of peyote. Last week Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, longtime medical missionary among the Navajos (and longtime foe of the Indian Bureau), reported that he had just heard of two cases of infanticide and one of fatal child neglect caused by peyote. At Flagstaff's Navajo Ordnance Depot many Indians were unable to work for days at a time after peyote jags. At least one-third of the 61,000 Navajos are estimated to be addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Button, Button . . . | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...dead or dying women, was already as old as the Pyramids. The first known Caesarean which did not kill the mother was done in 1500 by Jacob Nufer, a Swiss sow-gelder, on his own wife. In the three centuries after Nufer, European doctors tried rarely (and usually with fatal results) the operation which Dr. Bennett dared and did so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Woman's Ills | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Fisher was not talking about the cases where the baby swallows boric-acid solution, or the powder gets mixed with the feeding formula by mistake. The news in his report was that the chemical can sometimes be absorbed through breaks in the skin in sufficient quantities to be fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Deadly Boric Acid? | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...fatal last period that Yale scored four goals, while Harvard tallied only on an unassisted break-through by second midfielder Pete Brooke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lacrosse | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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