Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some physiologists believe that sleep is the result of chemical changes in the blood. Professor Alexei Dmitrievich Speransky who has Irina & Galina in charge and reported on her to the Gorki All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, thinks he has contradictory evidence. Irina & Galina's two heads share the same blood stream, but they wink, blink & nod off to sleep at different times. Sleep, reasons the professor, as did his celebrated predecessor, Ivan Pavlov, must be a nervous phenomenon...
...story of Fanny Kemble, to whom Novelist Henry James, her close friend, paid this tribute: "She was one of the rarest of women. . . . She reanimated the old drawing-rooms, relighted the old lamps, retuned the old pianos. . . . An extraordinary mixture of incongruous things, of England and France in her blood, of America and England in her relationships, of the footlights and the glaciers in her activities, of conformity and contumacy in her character and tragedy and comedy in her talk...
...Brains need oxygen, which they get from the blood. At the time of birth, a child's breathing may be disturbed and his brain starved of oxygen because his mother took too much drug to allay the pains of childbirth. Said Dr. Frederic Schreiber of Detroit: the difference between a living infant with a brain damaged from this cause and one that is born dead is probably only a matter of degree...
...following notable drugs may poison the marrow in the bones, decrease the production of white blood cells, may cause death, and should be taken as medicine only with specific instructions from a well-informed doctor, said Dr. Roy Rack-ford Kracke, Atlanta blood specialist: amidopyrine, dinitrophenol, novaldin, antipyrine, sulfanilamide, sedormid, salvarsan...
...cathartic, phenolphthalein, in a third of an ounce of alcohol, dilutes it with two-thirds of an ounce of water, has the patient drink the mixture on an empty stomach. If the mucous lining of the intestinal tract is in the least eroded, the phenolphthalein quickly seeps into the blood stream.* The harmlessly adulterated blood in due course swishes through the kidneys, leaving a residue of phenolphthalein to trickle into the bladder with the urine. Phenolphthalein turns pink when mixed with an alkaline substance like sodium hydroxide. So when Dr. Woldman drops sodium hydroxide into an ulcerated or cancerous individual...