Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tests given by a team of technicians, nurses and machines. The patient arrives with a medical-history questionnaire already filled out. He picks up a clipboard full of IBM cards, strips to the waist, dons a paper hospital gown and takes off on his rounds. Pulse rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, breath rate and strength, reflexes, urine, eyesight and hearing, all get a quick but thorough going-over...
...regularly introduced through mouth or lung in amounts greater than 1 mg. per day, lead can cause painful constipation, anemia, emaciation, loss of appetite, paralysis of the extremities, and ultimately death. And there is one more effect that interests Dr. Gilfillan most of all: enough lead can cause sterility in men, miscarriages and stillbirths among women. The Romans, says Gilfillan, especially the upper classes, knew little of lead's dangers, and they ingested more than enough of the metal to make trouble a certainty. Not only did Pliny the Elder counsel that "leaden and not bronze pots should...
...calling the Dallas doctors who had attended the President. They then learned that the incision for an emergency-room tracheotomy had been made over a bullet wound in the front of Kennedy's neck. Since they also had found suspicious bruises on the top of the right lung and neck muscles, the autopsy team concluded that the bullet had gone through...
Stories inevitably spread about miraculous cures effected by the acacia's water. A blind woman said her sight was restored after the acacia's liquid was poured into her eyes. Open sores on a child's face were reported washed away. Arthritic pain and lung congestion apparently disappeared after sufferers drank the fluid. Soon busloads of visitors were arriving at the Morse property from as far away as San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico...
Sure enough, it squeaks through, and as the heart once more explodes into action the voyagers are hurled into even more photogenic adventures. To replenish their air supply, they snorkel through the gauzy wall of a capillary into a shocking-pink lung where the lightest breath hurls the homunculi about like twigs in a tornado. A bit later, the "foreign body" of Actress Welch is attacked with understandable enthusiasm by antibodies that look like jellyfish made of household cement...