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...light. As I reached to shift gears, I saw two hands and two gear shift levers. I was confused for a second, but was brought to my senses immediately by a brilliant play of colors in my right eye. The colors fluttered rapidly, and were not synchronous with the cardiac impulse [heart beat]. They involved the areas receiving the long (red) and the short (purple and violet) light waves. I then knew what had happened, and my only thought now was to get home before greater consequences followed. I reached home with no greater annoyance than that occasioned...
...Willius, declared that pessimism and apprehension are only half warranted, that nine out of 20 victims of heart attacks survive a number of years. In the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Willius presented table after table of statistics taken from the Mayo Clinic's records of cardiac patients. These revealed that people who suffer an attack of coronary thrombosis between the ages of 30 and 40 have excellent chances of survival. This record contradicts "the comment frequently heard that coronary thrombosis in the early age periods is likely to be fatal, because . . . the heart is unprepared...
...each patient. To do the job well the physician must learn how each factor of that trinity affects the other in health and disease. Among consequences of Dr. Meyer's teachings were studies tendered in St. Louis on "The Psychic Component of the Disease Process (including convalescence) in Cardiac, Diabetic & Fracture Patients," "Female Sex Hormones in Involution Melancholia...
...angina pectoris lies somewhere in the heart, physiologists have studied that organ painstakingly. The first offshoots of the mighty aorta are two small twining arteries, called the coronaries, which feed blood to the hardworking heart muscle. If the bore of the coronary arteries is narrowed by disease or if cardiac circulation is otherwise interfered with, the cells of the heart muscle suffocate. The heart will stand for such maltreatment just so long. Then suddenly the heart "utters a piercing cry of distress." That cry is angina pectoris...
Scientific apparatus will be taken which will permit a detailed study of the respiration, circulation, metabolism, acid-base balance, water balance, heat regulation, cardiac performance, exertion, blood gas transport, and subjective responses in rest and in work of varying intensity. Continuous observations will be made, but especially detailed programmes will be carried out at sea level, 5,000 feet, 11.000 feet, 14,500 feet, 17,600 feet, 19600 feet and the same stations coming down. As much as possible will be done at attitude greater 20,000 feet...