Word: diaphragms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord in the nape of the neck causes the chest to expand (pulling the lungs open) and the diaphragm to contract (giving more room in the chest cavity...
...days one Vera Stone, 18, Tennessee girl, hiccoughed. She acked, eked, icked, ooked, ucked until she nearly died. Her diaphragm jerked until it ached and her arms and hands went numb. Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...
Hiccough is produced by spasms of the diaphragm and simultaneous closing of the vocal apparatus, the glottis, in the larynx. As breath is sucked into the lungs, it breaks through the closed glottis and produces the queer sounds of hiccough...
...later the temperature rose rather abruptly to a higher level and on Dec. 12 there was evidence at the extreme right base of effusion which had commenced between the lung and diaphragm. Drainage by means of a rib resection was performed on the same day under general anaesthesia-gas, oxygen and ether...
Nevertheless, Chauncey Mitchell Depew's was a full life, based on an alert brain, a well-guarded stomach and a useful diaphragm. The diaphragm's usefulness was revealed to him by a schoolmaster at Peekskill, N. Y., his birthplace. The other schoolboys recited their orations. Chauncey would offer original compositions. His master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics...