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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Standardized Anesthesia | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: F is for First Aid | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...start to save itself until its air was fouled and bilge water had begun to wet the batteries, releasing chlorine gas. Says the escape manual of the U. S. Navy, father of the submarine: "It is emphasized that if attempted individual escape is delayed until the first stages of asphyxia have developed, it will probably be too late successfully to accomplish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: WRECK | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...essential oxygen too long, irreparable damage may result. Such after-effects are not confined to Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen, as they may and do follow the use of other anesthetic agents, for example, ether as mentioned in the report. Destruction of the brain cells may occur as a result of asphyxia without anesthesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...upward and Backward toward the point of suspension, because of the weight of the body. If the marks are horizontal, they show that the victim was not hanged but garroted, so that suicide is ruled out, no matter in what circumstances the body is found. In general, deaths by asphyxia are characterized by blueness (cyanosis) of the face, ears, fingernails and lips; the eyes are bloodshot and the inside of the lids are red; and there are tiny hemorrhages under the scalp. If the victim was manually strangled, the little hyoid bone in the throat is invariably crushed. If carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Sleuthing | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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