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...only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound in his stethoscope. Whatever figure the sphygmomanometer gauge shows...
...Most frequent sites of this plugging are the common femoral artery in the groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire body...
...becomes a passable imitation of It Happened One Night, degenerates on their arrival into a tedious display of Red-baiting, climaxed when the soldier breaks up the meeting at which the radical is making a speech. Silliest shot: Robert Young pointing to a U. S. flag tattooed on his forearm...
...Instead of tottering into a collapse, Danno O'Mahoney retaliated with his own specialty, the "Irish Whip," and a flying mare of his own; banged Londos on the canvas so hard that after the bout doctors found him suffering from two broken ribs, a broken bone in his forearm, torn ligaments and a minor dislocation...
...trial he broke the speed record but was disqualified for using too much gasoline. In his second, a broken connecting rod scattered his motor on the track. Before the race, which his wife and nine-year-old son watched him win, he used an electric vibrator to keep his forearm muscles supple. His prizes, when it was over: $20,000 for winning; $2,000 for laps on the way, thousands more from manufacturers whose accessories he used...