Word: asphyxia
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...reader follows Jean into a dissecting room, where he cuts up cadavers; a slum, where he meets a leper; a hovel, where he hears a baby "leave the mother's belly with a moist squelching sound"; a ward, where he observes a woman choke to death of slow asphyxia, and hears from the puffed lips of a badly burned man "the most piercing shrieks that suffering can ever have brought forth"; an operating room, where he watches a leg being amputated at the thigh as a little surgical saw bites splinters off the bone and the limb breaks away...
...newborn babies in an incubator if they have breathing difficulties is wrong, said an Atlanta husband & wife team, Drs. James and Faith Miller. The warmth of the incubator increases the need for oxygen, whereas cold decreases it. After experiments on animals, the Millers suspect that babies in danger of asphyxia should be chilled...
...government's expert on the London water works; he invented a slide rule, a pocket chessboard, and worked on a computing machine. He wrote for the Britannica and other encyclopedias on an imposing range of subjects - Age, Apiaries, Arsenic, Asphyxia, Electricity, Electrodynamics, Galvanism, Phrenology, Solid Geometry, and Syncope. He became a collector of chess problems, dabbled in mnemonics, astronomy, entomology, geography, and geology. In his spare time he also took up botany, and it was botany that led him to compile the Thesaurus...
...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...