Word: postmortem
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...cleared in a hurry. Why had he done this? "We say," said the prosecution, "that it was because Dr. Adams knew quite well that Mrs. Hullett was going to die that weekend." Furthermore, the doctor had requested a post-mortem on his patient even before she died. The postmortem, when it was made, established the fact that Mrs. Hullett died of an overdose of barbiturates, but even though a coroner's inquest called it suicide, the Crown insisted last week that "the circumstances amount to murder by Dr. Adams, whether [Mrs. Hullett] administered the fatal dose herself or whether...
Knowledge from the Dead. Another advantage of graduate work in Vienna is the unparalleled opportunity for study of the dead. Thanks to a 200-year-old law, virtually all who die in the city's hospitals receive postmortems. In one hospital, there may be as many as 20 in a single day. Comments Ohio's Dr. Appleby: "You can see the operation in the afternoon, and if it fails, you can do the postmortem in the pathology room of the same hospital that night...
...Short, who performed the postmortem, gave as the primary cause of death coronary thrombosis; the secondary cause was carbon monoxide poisoning...
Mind v. Brain. Schizophrenia (split personality) is probably the commonest form of insanity. Where does it start, in the mind or in the brain? Most psychiatrists think schizophrenia is faulty functioning of the mind. On the basis of postmortem studies of ten patients with schizophrenia, Philadelphia's Nathaniel W. Winkelman came to the contrary conclusion that the disease should be considered organic: there are, he reported, changes in the brain that can be seen under the microscope. He found, for instance, a decrease in ganglion cells, and an unusual amount of fat in the cells. Most of his subjects...
...caused by sunspots, although Dun's Review, in all seriousness, devoted 13 columns to a discussion of sunspots and business activity in its first postmortem issue. It was caused partly by 1) the old fact that stock prices had generally risen far out of line with actual and visible profits, and 2) the new fact that too many people expected a recession, as the bastard result of full employment, high wages and too-high prices. Never had a coming slump been given such loud and passionate advance advertising...