Word: stillborn
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...sheep), small bodies situated just back of and above the kidneys. It was first isolated several years ago by the late Jokichi Takamine, and has been used for various purposes by physicians, but has never before been injected directly into the heart, except in the case of a stillborn baby recently chronicled in TIME. The effect of the treatment is to contract the blood vessels, especially in the limbs, increase the blood pressure and stimulate the heart. It could not, of course, be used to restore a patient who had died from a long, wasting disease, but in cases...
...more hate and despise the " mob" with whom he fought in France than he can turn his back on his Tory connections. So he goes striding disconsolately down the middle of the road, trying to be tolerant, taking no sides, finding it "all very difficult." His child is stillborn. No link remains between himself and his wife, who betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls...