Word: tuberculars
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...victim had not told the airline that he had been in a tubercular clinic and under treatment by pneumothorax (collapsed lung). His death was due to a simple law of physics: as atmospheric pressure decreased, the air in his chest cavity expanded to a volume that swiftly caused fatal complications...
Some Shinagawa patients were used as guinea pigs for incredible experimental injections by Captain Hisikichi Tokoda, a 29-year-old Japanese physician. Dr. Harold W. Keschner, an Army officer captured at Bataan, described Captain Tokoda's medieval brews. Into tubercular men he injected an acid mixed with infected bile. Once he squeezed a milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited...
Convalescing tubercular patients at the Cambridge Tubercular Hospital are receiving lectures and participating in discussion groups sponsored by Phillips Brooks House...
Born in Washington, D.C., Eric Johnston came by his faith in individual enterprise in the standard U.S. tradition. His tubercular father moved to Montana, then to Spokane, Wash., then on again, this time leaving his wife and small son to shift for themselves. Eric's working life started when he was scarcely out of rompers. From selling newspapers and running errands he progressed to working his way through high school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service...
...Germany need not be examined carefully as to general health and aptitude-a cursory once-over will do because those who are not very fit can be used as ticket punchers, etc. Le Medicin warns its doctor readers not to let Dr. Grasset lure them into passing any tubercular or mentally deficient people. Once in Germany, they would meet certain death...