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...pumping oxygen into it. Dr. Owens grabbed a scalpel and cut open the left chest. He reached in, pushed the left lung aside and grasped the patient's heart. Sixty times a minute he squeezed the heart, "with the pressure applied from the bottom up, like milking a cow backwards." With each squeeze, blood was pumped through the arteries, carrying oxygen to the brain...
Said a British diplomat, barely veiling his indignation: "There is nothing to be done; 50-50 has become a sacred cow...
Scratch-Happy. Because he reckoned that "cows know where they itch," Cattleman Bill Kirk designed a pest-killer which any range animal can apply to itself. "Old Scratch" is a flexible steel cable, strung with hundreds of steel washers, lubricated by a reservoir of oil-insecticide. The cow just rubs against Old Scratch, is automatically smeared with bug-killer, made happier, puts on weight faster as a result. Kirk, who started out with 11? in capital last year, has already shipped 4,500 models of Old Scratch to ranchers. Price: $198.50 f.o.b. Amarillo, Texas...
...walk and asked him to look at some peculiar red splotches on his daughter's face, Dr. Viaud failed to oblige. Instead, he hurried back to the hospital and sent one of the other doctors. He even avoided a chat with one of the townspeople about a sick cow...
Last week's New England Journal of Medicine tells how Vermont's State Pathologist Joseph W. Spelman solved the mystery. Cow's milk, he knew, differs from human milk in its relative amounts of calcium and phosphorus ash. Human milk during the first 30 days after a mother gives birth is also different from the milk of mothers between one and nine months after birth, and that of mothers after nine months. Analysis of the specks from the dead baby's stomach showed that their composition almost exactly matched that of mothers with babies nine months...