Word: asphyxia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up the Orinoco and found the jungle Indians killing game with blow pipe darts dipped in black, tarry stuff (curare) cooked up from native plants (see cut). Its reputation was not improved when 19th-Century experimenters found that curare victims die from asphyxia caused by paralysis of their breathing muscles. Time: a few seconds...
...Tribune suspected that caudal anesthesia would prove to have drawbacks similar to those of the long series of "painless" methods introduced since the century's turn-drawbacks to the mother such as delirium, narcosis, cyanosis, vomiting, short duration of anesthesia; drawbacks to the child such as narcosis and asphyxia-and asked obstetricians for opinions. The doctors' answers were all conservative...
...anesthesia is not the first cause that Dr. Flagg has vehemently embraced. The growing stature and autonomy of U.S. anesthetists is to a large extent a result of his years of untiring research and example. In 1936, mainly at his instigation, the A.M.A. at last formed a committee on asphyxia...
...immediate treatment of bleeding, asphyxia, poisoning. Serious bleeding may cause death in five or six minutes. Teachers first show students the various pressure points on the body where serious bleeding can be stopped, later teach them how to make tourniquets to stanch hemorrhage. For asphyxia and drowning, students are taught artificial respiration. For poisoning, they are given one good old rule of thumb: dilute the contents of the stomach at once by filling the victim with water. Then stick your finger down his throat till he throws...