Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slick-scalped man who wears gold-rimmed glasses and winged collars, caressed the skull of his deceased patient, placed a cigaret between its spring-hung jaws, clacked its bare hands upon the table. In final flourish the nine naprapaths signed a scroll listing themselves as members of a Post-Mortem Club and willing their bones thereto. A notary public authenticated the- document for what it was worth...
Medical Attention Advice by mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3 by telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Call by patient at office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 By physician at house, day . . . . . . . . . . . 3 night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 For each additional member of same family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 At hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Consultation, first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 subsequent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Detention, per hour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Examination, general physical . . . . . . . . 5 Post-mortem examination . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Antitoxin, administration of . . . . . . . . . . . 4 High-frequency and heat treatment . . . . 2 Immunization against scarlet fever . . . . . 4 Vaccination for smallpox...
...obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise yourself; and despise being despised." A post-mortem showed that his heart had grown so great that it had displaced one of his ribs. Of Joan of Arc, Hagiographer Wescott says: "If she was not a witch, the church is guilty of having destroyed its rarest heroine as a political expedient: if she was, it is guilty...
...Playwright Coward, War is anathema. The 'closest approach his comedies make to profundity is this philosophy: let us be merry today for yesterday (1914-18) we died. To prove his point he wrote two strongly sentimental dramas. The first, Post Mortem (unproduced), exposes the social dissolution observed by a young ghost who returns from Flanders. The second, Cavalcade, is a tragic cyclorama which begins with the Boer War and ends in 1930 with the hope that "this country of ours may find dignity, greatness, and peace again." Here was something more than the world dared to expect from...
...zealous pathologist, he pictured Coolidge in Death a great help to medicine and a good example to the nation, exclaimed: "I only hope an autopsy will be performed. If the family will permit it. they will be doing a great service in stimulating public demand for such post-mortem determination of the exact cause of death. It will do much to eliminate the existing, and foolish, American repugnance to autopsies...