Word: postmortem
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This ingenious research trick was announced last week by Biologist J. O. Ely of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. The old way of finding out where the bacteria went was either by 1) microscopic postmortem examination of tissues or 2) test-tube culture of tissue samples until bacteria appeared in obvious numbers. But hereafter scientists need only feed the bacteria on elements made mildly radioactive in a cyclotron (TIME, June 23), then can trace them through the animal body by the particles of subatomic radiation which they give...
...certainty that none of his "patients" could sue him for gossiping about their ailments, James Kemble, an amiable Harley Street surgeon, last week published his postmortem diagnoses of various historical personages...
...game between the Yale and Army players on Saturday was a hard-fought and honorable tie. The postmortem battle of statements between the officials of the two institutions, now that the returns are in, also seem to be a tie in absurdity...
...Lexington and Saratoga,. How many ships were sunk, which side won the engagement could only be told by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, once the Navy Department's sharp critic (TIME, July 22), but on this occasion its official umpire. The fleets steamed to Guantanamo Bay for a postmortem discussion of their fight...
...last week at the Museum of French Art in Manhattan. Maudlin sentimentalizers sniffled; shallow women giggled, pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze from the papier mach...