Word: septicemia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student at the University of Arkansas, I was an acquaintance of a very popular and attractive student there. She became pregnant. Because the attitude of the scarlet letter was still prevalent, without telling her parents, she had an illegal abortion. She died a terrible death from septicemia. Friends told me how she literally chewed up her tongue and screamed in agony . . . You want to take girls back to those days of death and horror...
...vast majority of plague cases can now be cured, if diagnosed quickly enough. Left untreated, however, the illness is fatal in more than half the cases, developing into either the highly contagious pneumonic plague or septicemia (blood poisoning), which caused all six of this year's plague deaths...
DIED. Edward Franklin, 53, medical researcher whose pioneering studies into the synthesis and metabolism of proteins in the body increased the understanding of the aging process; of septicemia; in New York City. An authority on immunology, Franklin also did outstanding work on lymph-system cancer and rheumatoid arthritis...