Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past dozen years, doctors have tried no fewer than 50 promising drugs and other treatments for multiple sclerosis. In no case has the promise been fulfilled. "MS" remains an inexorable and eventually fatal disease, especially baffling because in its early stages victims may have sudden and severe attacks of partial paralysis or blindness, then make what seems to be a good recovery. The respite, however, is distressingly brief, and when the disease is farther advanced, the disabilities become permanent...
...hyaline membrane disease that kills at least 25,000 infants every year (among them: Patrick Bouvier Kennedy) and the heart attacks that are fatal to 500,000 adult Americans seem poles apart as subjects for medical research. But doctors half the world away from each other have just implicated the same reflex as a possible cause of both killers: a primitive response apparently built into the human body to protect it against asphyxiation...
...intensified the reflex. If a man feels severe pain and suspects he is having a heart attack, Wolf concluded, he may panic, thus causing a reflex so marked that his heart will quit. Or chemical changes caused by the too-strong reflex action may throw the heart into equally fatal fibrillation (a useless twitching...
...Sugrue ruled that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority derived "a certain amount of benefit" from Maintenance Man Richard Marshall's services as a player on the Authority's softball team. Judge Sugrue awarded Marshall's widow and four children $38,130.04 in compensation for the fatal "on-the-job" heart attack he suffered while giving his all for his turnpike employers in a softball game last summer...
Also Food. Dr. Chafetz has no use for bluenoses, legislators and judges who equate drinking with crime. He doubts that even fatal auto accidents involving drunken drivers are primarily the result of drinking: in most cases, he says, there is an underlying mental disturbance...