Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haunting Danger. Medically both heartburn and acid indigestion are vague terms, as hard to define precisely as to treat effectively. Heartburn ("pyrosis" in medical jargon) is a burning sensation felt somewhere behind the breastbone. In the vast majority of cases, the pain means only that the victim cannot digest food properly because he is emotionally upset, and he may have the pain without food. But there is always the haunting danger that what feels like heartburn may be nature's warning that the coronary arteries are shutting down. Many a man has died of a heart attack soon after...
Carrier Mothers. Since boy victims of Duchenne dystrophy are severely crippled in their teens and dead at an early age, they do not reproduce. It is women who carry the curse, much as they carry that of hemophilia, without clearly falling victim to it themselves. Heredity decrees that half of a woman carrier's sons will be victims of the disease and half of her daughters will be carriers...
Denholm Elliott, a thin-lipped Briton who looks like Eastcheap trying hard to be Eton, plays the engineer's assistant: a natural victim who doesn't really know he's alive unless he's being tortured...
...does rabies still loom so menacingly? Among wild animals it is increasing fast enough to raise the nation's overall total of cases steadily. A persistent mystery is just how the virus survives: since it invariably kills its victim, at least among the higher animals, it might be expected to die with him. But it may have another reservoir somewhere. Opossums and bats seem to have some tolerance for the virus. Rabies is spreading where opossums are spreading, and it is spreading among bats...
Rabbits & Duck Eggs. Pasteur's and later rabies vaccines are unique in being given after the victim has been infected. This is because the disease has an amazingly variable incubation period-from ten days to eight months in both man and dog. An infected animal is not literally "rabid" or dangerous until ten days before its inevitable death. If a rabid dog bites a child in the arm or leg, the virus will stay localized for weeks before it attacks his central nervous system. Doctors usually start daily injections of vaccine into abdominal muscle without delay. If the animal...