Word: charnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarcely 60 years since hospitals were like charnel houses. Every other patient then carried into a hospital for surgical treatment, was carried out dead of blood poisoning, his wound a stinking fester. Joseph Lister, a young surgeon in Glasgow, smelled at the festers. They reminded him of sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons...
...image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly one's vacant pate and beneath the heads of three companions who lay beside him on the scaffold in that charnel house. Woven in patterns of concentric circles of different colors, these textures had to be sketched quickly before their 2,000-year-old fibres crumbled in the warm outer...
...sculptors in the Gould Library of New York University. This collection has no relation to the Hall of Fame nearby, but has been instituted by a group of artists to give honor to their own colleagues, some of whom will probably never get into the respectable colonnades of the "Charnel House of Fame," as Father Tabb called it in indignation against Poe's exclusion till...
...game in the language of integral equations. But whatever the wordology, there are some who are violently opposed to any idea of life after death; if these people thought there really was such a life, they would probably seek a pill with which they could commit eternal suicide. "If charnel houses and our graves do send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites...