Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Streptothricin protects mice against 10,000 times the ordinary lethal dose of Salmonella schottmülleri (paratyphoid fever organism), Escherichia coli (colon bacillus) and Bacterium shigae (cause of Shiga dysentery). The drug's usefulness against typhoid bacteria has not yet been tested in mice, but it is effective against test-tube typhoid...
Every year, some 1,300 people in the U.S. die by accidental electrocution. But electricity in quantity is not nearly so deadly as most people suppose. Two-thirds of those electrified by potentially lethal currents survive the shock. In fact, the stronger the shock, the better the chance of survival: 40,000 volts or more are only about one-third as lethal as lower voltages...
...battle he was not self-effacing. One night in October 1942, he bore the heavy brunt of a Jap attempt to retake Henderson Field. When the 19 men in his section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...
...last week of February and the first [two weeks] of March [were] a peculiarly lethal time for American authors; five of them died. James Boyd, John Thomason, Joseph Lincoln, Irvin Cobb, Hendrik van Loon - that is the list. In the opinion of a good many competent critics, James Boyd was by far the most solidly important of them...
...custom of making all victims of heart attacks stay in bed for six weeks. Very often a doctor finds a patient with failure of the left side of the heart sitting up in a chair and orders him to bed, "whereupon the patient proceeds to suffocate." Another lethal effect of bed rest : pneumonia caused by collection of fluid in the lungs. This is why sick oldsters should not stay in bed "one hour longer than necessary." They should sit up part of the time and let such fluid run down toward their feet and ankles...