Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collarbone outside-came to Surgeon Elliott Carr Cutler. This was while he was in Cleveland last year, before he returned to Boston to succeed his old master, Surgeon Harvey Gushing at Harvard. Dr. Cutler cured the girl's cervical fistula by flushing it with a caustic fluid. He thus saved himself a laborious operation, the girl an ugly scar. The clean result, reproduced in other fistulous cases with similar sclerosing fluids, warranted reporting in the current American Journal of Surgery...
Using the brain-toughener on the fistulous young woman was a "hunch" the immediate success of which amazed Dr. Cutler and his young associate, Dr. Robert Milton Zollinger. Protecting her throat from the caustic effects of the fluid, they merely flushed out the fistula. The flushing burned the lining of the fistula. As the walls healed they grew together, closing the abnormal passage in the neck...
...Harvard's Stanley Cobb: the brain of a sedentary brain-worker uses up more energy when he works than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body as a whole...
...flow (and therefore the Shah's royalties) Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State Teymourtache simply could not understand. "O King of Kings," he reputedly said to the Shah, "the policy of the English is clearly wrong. If more oil is produced, the price of this fluid all over the world will become cheaper, thus conferring universal benefit, and the more oil that flows the greater will be Persia's royalties. Since the deluded English wish to produce less oil, not more, I beg Your Majesty to cancel their concession and order your subjects to operate...
...monkeys injected with the bloody spinal fluid of victims showed (after one month of observation) no symptoms...