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...turns out that Hippocrates was right after all. Proof of his accuracy comes from three Mayo Clinic researchers, Drs. Anton Sutor, E.J. Walter Bowie and Charles Owens Jr., who used hemophiliac volunteers to determine the effects of cold on bleeding. Their experiments were simple. Making small (1 mm.-long by 1 mm.-deep) wounds in their subjects' arms, they tried chilling first the wound itself, then the wound and the surrounding area, and finally the surrounding area alone. Each time they collected the blood in special plastic cubes and analyzed it to determine clotting time...
...individual violent act, according to Drs. Mark and Ervin, results from a combination of biological and social factors. The immediate violent impulse comes directly from the brain, and its character is determined by the brain's threshold for violent action. This threshold is specific for every individual, and is determined by experiences: Past environmental influences are imbedded in the brain in the form of memory, and the effect of these influences on behavior is dependent solely on the functioning of the brain. This point of view suggests several social implications: The rehabilitation of violent criminals assumes that the subjects have...
...biological orientation towards violence also challenges sociological theories that classify aggressive behavior in man as instinctual. These theories hold that the interaction of ritualized behavioral drives develops into violence because man has "lost" intraspecies inhibitions. This point of view, formulated by Konrad Lorenz and others, is disputed by Drs. Mark and Ervin. The two argue that the internal brain mechanisms which guide the complex behavioral system of aggression are learned, as evidenced by the fact that directed attack behavior can be stopped "in midcharge." Man is violent only unnaturally...
...team of Chicago doctors criticized the aerosol bronchial sprays that asthma sufferers, among others, increasingly use to help open constricted bronchial passages. After a detailed study, Drs. George Taylor and Willard Harris reported that some sprays produced abnormal heart rhythms in mice, rats and dogs. They also warned that Freon-the heavier-than-air gas used as a propellant in many of the bronchial nebulizers-is absorbed into the blood through the lungs and affects the heart. This may be responsible for the rising death rate among spray users during the past ten years. Published reports show more than...
...believing that pushers use powdered lactose to dilute-and thus enlarge-their supplies, some addicts inject themselves with milk in an attempt to offset an overdose. The results are dangerous indeed, since milk contains proteins and fats that produce severe reactions when introduced directly into the bloodstream. According to Drs. Ernst Drenick and Kenneth Younger, one heroin addict whose friends injected milk into his veins became comatose and required extensive emergency treatment before he recovered. Two others were not so fortunate. One suffered permanent brain damage after he mainlined milk; the other died...