Word: septicemia
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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...
...years later she became pregnant by and finally married William Godwin, the brilliant though priggish political philosopher, who was publicly opposed to matrimony. Five months after the wedding, a doctor with unwashed hands attended the birth of her daughter Mary. Wollstonecraft died of septicemia eleven days later. The final indignity was more ironic. When Godwin published his memoirs of Mary, he was honest about her love affairs, suicide attempts and pregnancies but apparently misunderstood the meaning of her life and death. He wrote about her, as Biographer Tomalin observes, "as the female Werther, a romantic and tragic heroine," ignoring...
...Paris last week, Surgeon Georges Thomeret talked to reporters and displayed a photograph of a dead woman. "She was 24 years old, married, and had a child of two. She had an abortion, done by her concierge. Voila: dead of septicemia [blood poisoning] because she could not afford $500 for a safe abortion in England. That is why I signed the manifesto, because of this woman and others like...