Word: larynxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Elmer Isaac McKesson, 53, physician, pioneer inventor of gas and anesthesia appliances, an oxygen tent, an artificial larynx; of a kidney ailment; in Toledo, Ohio. He founded McKesson Appliance Co., one of the world's largest firms of its kind, died with one of his own oxygen masks on his face...
Everyone knows the rest: the swift, relentless progress of the disease, the evidence of a streptococcic infection, the edematous swelling of the larynx, the painful swallowing, the labored breathing and the agonizing death from suffocation...
...doctor is a man's job. I'm wondering what a man would have done in a case like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to extract a diaper-fastener from an infant's larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes infatuated with a ne'er-do-well surgeon...
Lying now in the darkness, alone with his frozen body, Bellower Humphries thought of crying out for help, discovered that his famed lungs and larynx still functioned. He bellowed. No one came. He kept on bellowing at intervals as grey light came to dispel the suffocating darkness, as the sun climbed & climbed into the sky. It was not until 10 a. m. that a neighbor who lived across the street finally heard the bellows, rushed over to find Joe Humphries sweating and shivering...
...most swank and civilized area. Arrested for beating and robbing a county detective's mother, Stark was put in the "goldfish bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam's apple...