Word: diaphragms
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...wrote: "Formerly I regarded the breathing thorax as a concertina bellows; my present work suggests that it resembles rather a cylinder and piston." But this reverse action of the lungs, he contends, is often missing in actual cases of injury or drowning. Reason: a patient's diaphragm is relaxed, flaccid. So Dr. Eve tried something else...
...seesawing brings the abdominal organs up against the diaphragm when the head is down with enough force to push the breath out; then, when feet go down, the organs pull down the diaphragm and air is drawn into the lungs. Other advantages of the Eve rocker: wounds and burns of the trunk can be attended to while rocking is going on; anyone can teeter the board for hours on end; it is harmless-ribs and liver cannot be injured...
Scene: The music room in the palatial villa of Mrs. Lafcadio Mifflin at Newport. Mrs. Mifflin, a majestic woman in a slim-pin Bemberg corselet well boned over the diaphragm (Stern Brothers, fourth floor), is seated at the console of her Wurlitzer, softly wurlitzing to herself. Mr. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat. Inasmuch as there is a great, tawny cat stretched out alongside him, also wearing a porous-knit union suit, it is not immediately apparent which is Mifflin...
Senior surgeon of the third portable is blond, athletic Major William Garlick of Baltimore, a chest and diaphragm specialist. His present wardrobe consists of shorts and sneakers. In the first three days of one battle he had 68 cases of chest and abdominal wounds-right down his alley. The portable took care of them so fast that no serious peritonitis developed. They were only a small part of the wounded. Most of the cases were less dangerous- arm, leg, back or buttock wounds. There was only one amputation. Major Swinton's portable had to dig four wells on their...
...swearing there is no specific contraction of the diaphragm [as in laughter and weeping], but there is a general increase in neuromuscular tension, an increase in blood pressure and an acceleration of its flow, and a rise in the amount of sugar in the blood, respiration is accelerated, and there is a general feeling of tension which is gradually reduced as the swearing proceeds. ... [It] is a psychological means of keeping the organism physiologically clean." Dr. Ashley-Montagu approves swearing among females. "Today, instead of swooning or breaking into tears, [women] will swear and then do something useful...