The injection was given subcutaneously, which should have hurt less than intramuscularly but still hurt a great deal.

Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.

The effects of high intensity radiant energy thermal burns, total body X irradiation, and of combinations of thermal burns and total body X irradiation upon the blood coagulation mechanism has been investigated in rats.

As a compromise in an age of psychopharmacological doubt, this seems about right.