Word: diaphragms
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...copper hood which fits over the patient's abdomen from hips to ribs; the other of an aluminum hood which covers the entire torso from hips to collar bone. Intermittent air suction in the abdominal hood expands and contracts a patient's lungs by forcing his diaphragm up and down. Similar suction in the torso hood compels breathing by moving both the diaphragm and the chest wall...
...been installed in the White House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg, Va., banks, museums, warehouses, art galleries, libraries, laundries. In this device, concealed in the walls, the heat of a burning wastebasket is enough to expand the air in the tube, move a small diaphragm, close an electrical circuit, flash an alarm to the central fire station...
...cyanide preparation which gave a brilliant greenish yellow image solved the whole matter, for there are moving picture films which record clear pictures in those lights. Two seconds suffice to picture two or three beats of the heart, the acts of breathing and swallowing, movements of the diaphragm, abnormal action within the thorax, motions of joints. The relative thickness of the abdomen makes photographing the movements of its organs less satisfactory. Two seconds is too brief to get a good picture of the complete peristaltic wave of the stomach. But two seconds is enough to portray an ulcer...
...most city folk, is a practical necessity on farms, only becomes a standard sport at fairs throughout the U. S. Hog-callers make a noise whose nearest printable equivalent is "Su-ee Su-ee Su-ee-Pig-ee Pig-ee Pig-ee." If done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland County...
...methods of resting a tuberculous lung. In artificial pneumothorax a hollow needle is inserted between two ribs. Air is pumped into the pleural cavity of the affected side until pressure prevents the lung from expanding. Nor can a diseased lung expand when nerves which control that side of the diaphragm are cut (phrenicotomy). Although little known at New Orleans last week, Dr. Archibald, 63, is famed among lung specialists. He has been director of McGill University's department of surgery for 28 years. His deep interest in tuberculosis began in 1902 when he developed the disease and went...