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...examination of the spinal fluid showed a normal cell count and protein content as well as a negative Wassermann reaction. The diagnosis of Disseminated Sclerosis of the Spinal Cord was made and concurred in by two eminent London neurologists. Unfortunately a post mortem examination was not permitted...
...indisputable proofs of a respiratory function of the digestive tract of some vertebrae. There is sufficient evidence as to the possibility of utilizing oxygen in the digestive tract. There are known cases (testified by medical observation) of life during 'several hours of the infants, whose lungs on post-mortem examination were found to be absolutely unstraightened." Special significance of this: if an X-ray of a newborn infant shows air in the stomach or bowels, then no matter if the lungs lack air, that infant was born alive...
...other hand, if Dr. Corbit waited for Mary Bocassini to die, the only way to deliver the baby would still be by Cesarean section. This introduced a problem in Common Law. Cutting her body post mortem might be construed as an autopsy. And Common Law forbids autopsy without the consent of the nearest surviving kin. Her husband objected...
...post-mortem cables on why the Communist bluff failed to move Socialist Blum last week, leading Paris correspondents agreed that the execution in Moscow of Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven generals of the Red Army (TIME, June 21) has profoundly jolted French political opinion, even to some extent among French Communists. It has always been a question in Paris whether the Red Army was good enough to make the present Franco-Soviet military alliance a worthwhile check to Germany-the eternal enemy. If the news from Moscow means that the Red Army has been immensely weakened by execution of its ablest...
TIME should be congratulated on such an accurate and detailed report of this case, thereby clearly demonstrating the extreme value of post-mortem examinations...