Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presumption that wild animals in their natural environment do not suffer from diseases such as afflict ourselves and our domestic animals." Dissecting warm specimens in the jungle, instead of pickled specimens in a laboratory, he found a startling incidence of internal parasites, anatomical abnormalities (e.g., a rat with one lung), tumors, deficiency diseases, etc. He believes that it would be useful for science to undertake a wider study of the diseases of truly wild animals in order to learn the control of disease in our own world. His book shows that patient naturalists can still find under leaves and stones...
...Lung injurants caused most of the gas fatalities in World War I. They cause blood fluid to flood the lung's air sacs, killing the victim very much as drowning does. The principal types used in the last war were chlorine and phosgene; types have also been perfected which include a little arsenic just in case the victim survives lung injury...
...clothing, give almost no warning of their presence. They are seldom fatal, but in warfare an invalid needs more care than a corpse. Mustard gas is the most famous of the vesicants. Whereas in World War I sternutators caused one casualty for every 650 pounds of gas used, and lung injurants one per 230 pounds, blister gas was much more efficient: one per 60 pounds. There are no certain defenses against it except reprisal. But it is not the easiest gas to make...
Under "Fiscal" (TIME, Jan. 20), I read what you had to say about taxes and the budget . . . : "He [Franklin Roosevelt] termed the U. S. tax burden 'moderate' compared to other countries-somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
...take it that a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung-feeling bad enough -would rather escape pneumonia in the other lung-which he certainly will not do by kicking around and utterly disorganizing himself -destroying any body unity he could build up. A wise patient will swallow the nasty medicine-will ask for nastier medicine-in a chance to spare the other lung...