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Great numbers of Americans are inhaling carbon monoxide, a notoriously poisonous gas, in quantities far above levels normally considered safe. That fact, reported in the A.M.A. Journal last week by a team of researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin, is not surprising in itself. It has long been known that cigarette smokers, workers in certain industries and people in the dense traffic areas of major cities breathe in abnormally large amounts of carbon monoxide. But the Wisconsin study reveals that surprisingly many nonsmokers, office workers and residents of rural communities are also exposed to high concentrations...
...Carbon monoxide (CO) produces its poisonous effect by crowding out oxygen molecules that normally attach themselves, in the lungs, to the hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells. By a malign quirk of nature, CO has an affinity for hemoglobin more than 200 times as great as that of oxygen. Thus too much carbon monoxide starves the body of oxygen, causing illness and sometimes death-as in the case of the suicide who runs a hose from the engine exhaust to the inside of his car. But how many Americans are inhaling an excessive amount...
...bicycle long enough for angina to develop. Then they rested, smoked one of the cigarettes, and exercised again. After a pot smoke, angina occurred in half the normal time; the heart rate went up from about 72 to 100, blood pressure from 120/81 to 130/86, and the level of carbon monoxide in the blood increased markedly. Few known angina patients may take to pot, but there are many more potential victims who should be forewarned...
...test, a small sample of Martian soil will be partially submerged in a nutrient-rich solution (called "chicken soup" by the experimenters). If any Martian organisms grow in the broth and give off carbon dioxide or other common byproducts of respiration-like life processes, instruments will detect these chemicals. In another test, soil will be exposed to a nutrient containing radioactive carbon 14. If any microorganisms consume the nutrient and give off carbon-bearing gases as metabolic wastes, those wastes will be radioactively "tagged" and readily identified. Lastly, a Martian soil sample will be exposed to xenon "sunlight...
Allergy Treatment. At the hearings, former staff members testified about Green Valley's various treatments. They said that Dr. William Philpott, a consulting psychiatrist who practices in South Attleboro, Mass., believed that mental disorders stem from allergies. He tried to treat the allergies by having students inhale carbon dioxide gas. (Two of his former patients in Maryland died following carbon dioxide inhalation therapy, and Philpott was acquitted of manslaughter in 1966.) According to the former head nurse, Esther Johnson Snow, another consultant, Dr. Sol Klotz of Orlando, Fla., told her to inject a student with his own urine...