Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of blood in the spinal fluid of eleven of the 16, indicating some form of inter-cranial hemorrhage...
...five cases where no bleeding was noted, a marked increase in the globulin content of the spinal fluid was observed...
...crisis came at the close of the war, when the changes made for military purposes in all instruction had left matters in a somewhat fluid state. A committee of the Faculty was appointed to consider what, if any, extension of the principle could profitably be made in other fields. There was a feeling that such a system ought not to be maintained in one class of subjects alone; that it should either be abolished or extended. After a study of the question in its various phases the committee reported, and in April, 1919, the Faculty voted, that general examinations should...
...winning model, owned by Herbert Owen of New Britain, Conn., had an enormous advantage of lightness. It weighed only .03 oz. Instead of Japanese tissue, its wing was made of "microfilm," a transparent, opalescent substance that looks something like Cellophane. It is made from a nitrocellulose fluid base (e.g. collodion, bronzing liquid, etc.) that-floats on' water in a gossamer layer, dries in a sheet about one-eighth the weight of superfine tissue. The winner was awarded the Sportsman Pilot Cup, originally posted by Sportsman Pilot (monthly) for a race which did not come off in the National...
...central" theory supposes that cerebrospinal fluid periodically collects in the skull, causes pressure on the brain. A similar reaction might follow if the head arteries carried an extra amount of blood, or if the head veins emptied themselves too slowly...