Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bodies are shipped to the depot which Dr. Hewson manages in Philadelphia. There the bodies are injected with three gallons of fluid, greased, wrapped in paper and cloth, and refrigerated at 5° F. Dr. Hewson is proud that he preserves his cadavers so well that he can turn them over to relatives who occasionally appear two-and-a-half years after the subject's death. Such relatives always get the bodies they want, for the supply of cadavers now is so ample that no medical school or anatomical board will risk a quarrel for possession...
...person of the headwaitress. Determinedly she scooped up the startled cockroach and aimed him unerringly, as one spectator thought, at his unprotected face. But, alas, such was not the case. Oh miserable fate, he was immersed and died a dreadful death in a cup of coffee-colored fluid...
They rarely give barbiturates (like allonal) because those drugs rarely quiet a drunk and do depress his circulation. They never give morphine, because that drug increases pressure on the brain and brings on death. They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash...
...Other lines were soon out of commission because the fine new Union Station is in old Mill Creek Valley and tracks were deeply submerged. An even greater danger threatened the waterfront when oil tanks in Mill Creek Valley tore loose from their foundations, began floating around and slopping their fluid on the rising waters...
...first trip to the U. S., his first season with Shankar who considers him a better dancer than himself. Critics, mindful of the subtlety of the older dancer, his hands which can all but hiss like snakes, disagree. But they praise Madhavan for his energy, his strong, fluid movements, the ease with which he holds himself in desperately hard positions...