Word: stuporously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...body's defense mechanisms) in the infected organs, and all died. 2) The non-intoxicated, immunized rabbits developed typical swelling and pus, which killed all bacteria within nine hours, and all got well. But even though inflammation developed after the intoxicated animals recovered from their drunken stupor, it did not save any of them if bacteria had run rampant even for so short a period as three hours. Dr. Pickrell did not determine the minimal amount of alcohol which would inhibit the body's defense mechanisms...
After lying in a fitful stupor for five years, seven months, twelve days,* Chicago's long publicized victim of sleeping sickness, Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935, et ante), died last week. In a trice pathologists of Northwestern University medical school took out: 1) her lungs, to verify the pneumonia which was the immediate cause of her death; 2) an ovary to examine the tumor which mysteriously developed a few weeks ago, caused her to waste away, reduced her resistance to the pneumonia; and 3) her strange, ineffective brain. Then she was buried with a fresh corsage of gardenias...
When finally aroused, ex-King Alfred proceeds from his customary breakfast of brandy direct to the Folies Bergere, where ennui induced by watching the can-can restores him to a stupor. On the advice of the ex-King's doctor, his ex-Chancellor and ex-lady-in-waiting (Mary Nash) hatch a plot to give him a new interest in life. This consists of persuading a chorus girl who momentarily attracts his attention to alter the monotony of his unvarying success with women by not falling in love with him. The plan has the desired effect upon the King...
...will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...
...spite of the fact that Mrs. Love's case was now in the hands of a medical commission, in the seventh day of her self-induced stupor four newsreel cameras were set up in the jail hospital and one of the original psychiatrists had another try at awakening the prisoner. Psychiatrist Marcus stroked her forehead, tickled her mastoids, then murmured into her ear: "I'm coming in. Here I come. I'm knocking. Here I come." He turned to the cameramen. "She will awaken in less than a minute. . . . She is awake! Come, come, Helen! Speak...