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...Aimee was unable to stay clear of the courts. Last week, after performing an autopsy, three surgeons were unable to agree on the cause of death. Her heart was strong and there was no evidence that she had taken an overdose of the sleeping pills. The coroner scheduled an inquest...
Toronto's General Hospital last week reported its 20th death in four years from sulfa poisoning, three within the last month. So aroused were Toronto doctors that the city's chief coroner held a widely publicized inquest on Victim No. 18, to highlight the dangers of using sulfa without proper medical supervision. From Milwaukee came a similar report: 15 sulfa deaths in the county hospitals in three years. Many another U.S. hospital might have added to the death score from sulfa if it had published its files...
Autopsy showed crystals in the young man's kidneys (commonest way a sulfa drug kills), damaged liver and heart, inflamed intestines, slight pneumonia.* Medical experts at the inquest laid most sulfa deaths to self-dosage. The drugs, they said, should be dispensed as carefully as strychnine or arsenic...
...wrote a note to Vanessa and one to her husband, took her stick and walked across the Downs to the River Ouse. Later her hat and stick were found on the river bank. On April 2, her husband said: "Mrs. Woolf is presumed to be dead. . . ." At the inquest the coroner read a note by this mistress of English prose: "I have the feeling that I shall go mad and cannot go on any longer in these terrible times. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer...
Thirteen members of the New York Music Critics' Circle, whose favor can lead to national fame, met in a beery, benevolent back room of Manhattan's Blue Ribbon restaurant. But their task had something of the atmosphere of a coroner's inquest. Several of the members were in favor of calling the whole thing off. All were aware that the year had probably produced not a single U.S. symphonic composition capable of rousing any spontaneous or permanent affection from the U.S. listening public. The five final entries had been played on two NBC Sunday afternoon nationwide hookups...