Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medicine, the staff of London's Middlesex Hospital last week was able to report perfection of a slow and safe method of transfusing blood. One of those helpful procedures is the preservation of human blood by the addition of substances to keep it in a clear, unclotted, fluid condition. Thus gallons of blood may be accumulated from donors, kept in a refrigerator until needed for a transfusion. The other helpful procedure is venoclysis, the slow drop-by-drop introduction into a vein, through a hollow needle, of a salt or a sugar solution, which a patient needs to support...
...anemia of the brain in some Colgate students, added the following to the A. M. A.'s explanation: "We still have to discover a definite scientific basis for the practice of sleeping head forward on trains. . . . Hemastatics may justify head forward position, since with the head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would not necessarily make the sleep one whit more refreshing, in fact...
Examination of her blood and spinal fluid, a fever (104º)spasms and other signs convinced Dr. Traut and consultants that Patricia Maguire suffered from sleeping sickness. Her "convulsive movements were often marked enough to throw her out of bed. She yawned a great deal and grimaced, holding her mouth pulled up at either side. She would not answer but would draw away from painful stimuli. Convulsive movements of the jaws required the insertion of a gag to protect her tongue and cheeks. She lay for hours with the neck, arms and legs acutely and rigidly flexed...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...
...only do patients assume the status of guinea pigs in this war of the gargles but the nurses are strained to the breaking point with intricate detail. Four times a day, they must see that over thirty throats come into contact with the proper fluid. Charts, vocal instruments, and pleas all come to the fore for apparently a mistake would be fatal...