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Various drugs (mostly those which constrict the blood vessels) might help even serious cases. But when the victim tries to breathe the drugs into his lungs as fine mist through a "nebulizer," they do not penetrate deep enough. Struggle as he will, the stiffened sacs remain full of stale air and of carbon dioxide from the blood...
...dimercaptopropanol, or British Anti-Lewisite), used in arsenic poisoning, may cause vomiting, constrict the throat...
...cortex may be produced by many different stimuli. Direct electrical stimulation of certain nerves produced the same result; so did severe hemorrhages, heavy doses of certain hormones (e.g., adrenalin, pituitrin), and injections of the poison secreted by staphylococcus germs. All of these stimuli, the investigators decided, activate nerves which constrict the kidneys' blood vessels and divert the blood flow from the small vessels in the cortex to the larger ones in the medulla. Lack of blood in the cortex, in turn, raises blood pressure (an automatic adjustment of the body trying to force more blood intp the cortex...
...other 23 patients described in a recent book by five Manhattan doctors (Personality in Arterial Hypertension), her life had been sensationally unhappy. The doctors think this common factor significant. Is there some connection between emotional upheaval and high blood pressure? The doctor-authors speculate: emotional tension makes blood vessels constrict and cuts the flow of blood to the kidneys. The kidneys, short of blood, release a chemical which raises blood pressure...
...Last week the International Latex Corp., whose Playtex girdle "controls but does not constrict or bind," enthusiastically reprinted the letter in newspaper...