Word: adrenaline
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Fear, the psychologists say, is a good thing. "It is the body's preparation for action. The heart pounds faster, pumping blood . . . where its oxygen is needed. The lungs do their part by quickened breathing. Blood pressure goes up. Adrenalin, which is nature's own 'shot in the arm,' is poured into the blood stream. Sugar is released into the blood to act as fuel for the human fighting machine. . . . [The soldier's ] blood clots more readily. He loses temporarily the sense of fatigue even though he may have been dog tired...
...increased the oxygen content of the blood-just the thing, he suspected, for asthmatics wheezy to the point of strangulation. In the last three years he has tried the Knott technique on 24 asthma patients, all of whom defied treatment by conventional methods such as nasal surgery, allergy studies, adrenalin, ephedrine...
...Republicans' running mate for Alfred Landon in 1936, Frank Knox exhibited all his strength, and all his weaknesses. He knew from the start that his ticket was licked, but never admitted it. He set off on a 22,000-mile campaign tour full of thunder and adrenalin, never stopped castigating the New Deal, never lowered his voice below a victorious shout...
...Excessive use of solutions containing ephedrine, adrenalin, benzedrine, neosyne-phrine, menthol and camphor is to be condemned." Reasons: 1) such drugs may eventually cause tiny blood vessels in the nose to become swollen with blood; 2) the chemicals may irritate the nasal membranes. Oily drops may be inhaled into the lungs, cause pneumonia. Frequent irrigations with saltwater drops may "waterlog" the membranes, spread infections...
Appointment for Love (Universal). Dr. Jane Alexander (Margaret Sullavan) is an enterprising medico who can reduce most of life's foibles and pleasures to dank laboratory formulas. To her, love is a chemical attraction; jealousy a spurt of adrenalin, etc. She works most of the time...