Word: fluids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thomas L. Chiffelle, who was pathologist at Yale medical school at the time, testified that her body had been received a few hours after death and was soon embalmed. Said Pathologist Chiffelle : his examination did not confirm the causes of death listed on the certificate. Because of the embalming fluid, he could not make a satisfactory study of the blood in her body. Neither he nor a toxicologist could say what had caused Lizzie Ayres's death...
Trial by Heat. Since man cannot change his body quickly, he must carry with him a capsule of his earth-surface environment. This, in effect, is what the fish did; the cells in the bodies of land vertebrates, including man, are bathed in a fluid much like the thin brine of the paleozoic sea. But when man tries to carry his environment with him into the aeropause, he finds problems at each level...
Blood chairmen Thomas H. Petschek '53, Philip D. Levin '53, and Joseph R. Cataldo '53 point out that every casualty requires nine pints of blood, and that demands for blood have increased daily while stockpiles of the precious fluid have dropped sharply...
...best treatment, doctors now believe, calls for injections of streptomycin into the spinal fluid as well as the muscles. Because some tubercle bacilli develop resistance to the antibiotic, the patients are also given para-aminosalicylic acid (TIME...
Before he found his future, at 14, Graham had made serious attempts at suicide. Once he drank some photograph developing fluid and a bottle of hay-fever lotion. Another time he tried eating a bunch of deadly nightshade. He can still remember "the curious sensation of swimming through wool" after swallowing 20 aspirins and jumping into the school swimming pool...