Word: adrenalinized
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Victims of electric shock, or drowning, or patients who die under anaesthetics may be brought back to life by the immediate injection of adrenalin with a needle directly into the heart. This has been demonstrated by Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland surgeon, and his nephew, Dr. Dennis R. W. Crile, of Chicago, on patients of their own who had been pronounced dead, they told the Chicago Medical Society and the American Association of Anaesthetists...
...baby, born apparently dead, was successfully revived by unusual means, an injection of adrenalin. The child, a boy, was one of a pair of boy and girl twins born in a Brooklyn maternity hospital. The two children together weighed only five and a half pounds at birth. The girl, except for her size, was normal. The boy was without heart action or respiration...
Ordinary means failed to revive the child. The physician in attendance, Dr. Philip Mininberg, then injected a few drops of adrenalin and heart action recommenced. A small quantity of blood was drawn to ease the heart's work. Massage and a pulmotor were applied, and within an hour the child was breathing normally...
...Adrenalin is a common drug used to stimulate heart action. It is an extract from the adrenal glands of sheep...