Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victim Handsome Dan IV. English bulldog mascot of the Yale football team, rallied sharply late last night, and veterinarian Dr. S. Johnes gave the dog an even chance to pull through. Suffering from a serious paralysis of his posterior extremities, Dan was given slight hope in earlier dispatches from New Haven...
...revelation from heaven that he was Christ and in an attack of catatonic [mad] excitement became violent," ended up in a State hospital as a victim of schizophrenia...
...bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into grey brain flesh may miraculously humanize a speechless paralytic, a savage child, a cancer victim crazy with pain...
Next Nazi victim to mock Winston Churchill was the British Booth freighter Clement, sunk between New York and Brazil in the South Atlantic by a "sea raider." And down went the Swedish steamer Gun, torpedoed off Jutland...
Best procedure when treating a victim of "intractable" pain, said Dr. Rutherford, is to send him to a hospital for a week. During the first half of the week he is given daily intramuscular venom injections of two or three cubic centimeters each. During this "saturation" period his pain is as agonizing as ever, and he usually needs heavy doses of morphine or other opiates. But within four or five days the venom seeps through his system and anesthetizes pain areas of his higher nerve centres. Gradually his pain dies away. After the first saturation period, the physician, by cautious...