Word: adrenaline
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About one surgery patient in a thousand dies under anesthetic. The usual emergency treatment, when a patient's heart stops, is artificial respiration and an adrenalin injection into the heart. Mr. Bailey said he had abandoned this uncertain, time-consuming method for more direct action. He cuts open the abdomen below the ribs with a sweep of the knife, grasps the exposed heart with his right hand and squeezes it like a bulb. After a few minutes' massage, Mr. Bailey triumphantly reported, some of his patients' hearts began to beat of their own accord, and the patients...
...June moon, the sparkle of early fireflies, the perfume of flowers and the adrenalin inherent in the human system still stirred up a certain sprightliness in some of the young...
Observers predicted that Yoshida would need more shots of MacArthurian adrenalin if he was to survive in spite of his lack of tact. Sample: some time ago he invited two U.S. correspondents of Irish descent to dinner in an effort to enlist their help in mitigating occupation directives-which, said he, "as you Irishmen can understand, are too oppressive for the proud to bear...
...center of a ten-foot circle, he bounded out with a straight gait in 30 seconds flat, as 100 fans cheered. There were no rules governing the race: one contestant dropped dead of an overdose of adrenalin. Arkansas Express will be entered in turtledom's Kentucky Derby, the sixth annual turtle trudge at the University of Detroit this week...
Psychologist Oliver Lacey of Cornell University reasoned that a disordered metabolism might have predisposed the rats to jumpy nerves. In follow-up experiments, he proved it by injecting stable rats with adrenalin, which increases blood sugar. Result: all of them became susceptible to fits. Reporting in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Lacey carefully avoided jumping to one possible conclusion: that some of the psychological maladjustments of human beings may be caused by plain faulty metabolism-in short, that unhealthy bodies cause unhealthy minds...