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Examination of her blood and spinal fluid, a fever (104º)spasms and other signs convinced Dr. Traut and consultants that Patricia Maguire suffered from sleeping sickness. Her "convulsive movements were often marked enough to throw her out of bed. She yawned a great deal and grimaced, holding her mouth pulled up at either side. She would not answer but would draw away from painful stimuli. Convulsive movements of the jaws required the insertion of a gag to protect her tongue and cheeks. She lay for hours with the neck, arms and legs acutely and rigidly flexed...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...
...only do patients assume the status of guinea pigs in this war of the gargles but the nurses are strained to the breaking point with intricate detail. Four times a day, they must see that over thirty throats come into contact with the proper fluid. Charts, vocal instruments, and pleas all come to the fore for apparently a mistake would be fatal...
...millions of British cinemaddicts this explanation sufficed. Evidently some improper fluid had been spilled by accident into The Story of the Reign of His Majesty the King. But cinemen were not satisfied. In any case the jubilee film must have been printed from cinema library footage. Even if chemicals ruined the entire new film, an extremely improbable occurrence, the library footage remains, can be printed off again. Cinemen therefore conjectured last week that the trouble could scarcely be chemical. Asked they: "Are old pictures of the King really so inspiring...
...amniotic fluid is collected at the slaughter house from heavy western beef after government inspection of each animal. The uteri of cows two to five months pregnant, only, are selected. At this early period the amniotic fluid is especially pure and potent. The product is further purified and concentrated by an elaborate chemical process in one of the country's leading pharmaceutical houses. The end product, highly purified, is now used to prevent peritonitis in all cases of abdominal surgery...