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...body temperature below 70° is believed to be fatal. Protected by layers of fat and some drinks of whisky, Mrs. Davis had a temperature of just 70°. But Vickie's temperature was 60.8°. No one in medical history had ever survived a temperature as low as that (a Chicago woman lived after a 64.4° temperature in 1951). Doctors had little hope of saving the child, but they decided to try. She was placed in a warm-water bath and given regular cortisone injections. As the water's temperature was increased Vickie's body...
Added Bronk: "In the spirit of research we will endeavor to preserve a flexible educational pattern and an adventurous environment for our students. We agree with Abraham Flexner, the great educator . . . 'As a democracy needs intellectual distinction, it would be fatal to exhibit too timorous a spirit...
Chopsticks & Champagne. To expand and modernize the line, Hymans spent $53 million on new Lockheed Constellations. Vickers Viscount turboprops, lumbering Breguet transports for 106-passenger coach flights. He and his operating chiefs are fanatics on safety, have suffered no fatal crashes since 1953. All Air France's first pilots are million-mile men, are paid up to $15,400 a year (more than the President of the Republic). Every mechanic is winnowed through a special four-year course, gets three more years of on-the-job training...
Once they are given a situation with some potential, the Marx Brothers tear into it with a delightful zest which makes up for much of the plot's weakness. Their skill barely saves many slapstick scenes from a fatal resemblance to televsion-style humor...
Other clinical descriptions in Dickens' novels are varied and comprehensive enough to make a case book: the post-concussional state of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend, the fatal cerebral vascular disease of Mr. Dorrit in Little Dorrit, the chronic hypomania of the stranger who made advances to Mrs. Nickleby over the garden wall in Nicholas Nickleby. In at least one instance Dickens got the jump on the medical profession: the first recorded instance of the association of narcolepsy (uncontrollable desire to sleep) with obesity occurs in the fat boy of Pickwick Papers...