Word: burch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polk County, a Democratic pocket in the Republican southeast area, Southern tempers boiled over. Three men were killed and five wounded. The National Guard had to be rushed in. When the votes were tabulated, a non-partisan Good Government League had swept the ruthless organization of ex-Sheriff Burch Biggs, longtime Crump henchman, out of office...
...Much Sodium. The A.M.A.'s gold medal for the most original exhibit went to a pair of young Tulane doctors who had broken out a new track of investigation. Drs. George E. Burch (see below) and Paul Reasor wanted to find out why people with congestive heart failure have so much trouble getting rid of water, and thus show such symptoms as massively swollen legs. They suspected that sodium, an extremely "thirsty" element, had something to do with it. So they fed patients salt containing radioactive sodium, and followed the sodium's course. Sure enough, they discovered that...
Specialists have realized for some time that such heart patients do poorly on a normal diet, and need as little salt as possible. A diuretic, to help the patients get rid of water, is also a standard treatment. But Drs. Burch and Reasor showed that the big problem is to get rid of sodium rather than water. For that purpose, a mercurial diuretic is best; it carries off excess sodium in urine...
...machine checks up on the behavior of blood vessels, which register emotional upsets by expanding and contracting abnormally. Tulane's Drs. George E. Burch and Clarence T. Ray, searching for a simple means of registering psychosomatic disturbances "objectively," used a "plethysmograph." The subject sticks his finger tip into a plastic cup, and the machine records the finger's alternate swelling and contraction by measuring the tiny changes in the cup's air volume...
...Burch and Ray were astonished to discover how sensitive even normal people are. Possible plethysmograph use: spotting the root of a neurotic patient's trouble...