Word: goetze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South African Medical Journal, German-born Physiologist R. H. Goetz reports how he solved a part of this problem. He did it one of the hard ways. When he was in Cambridge, England, in 1949, he suggested to Professor de Burgh Daly that they experiment with live giraffes. Daly said, "Bring your own giraffe." This would have been too expensive, so last year Dr. Goetz assembled a veldworthy laboratory and took it to the northeastern Transvaal, which teems with giraffes...
...Heart. Studying dead giraffes was comparatively easy. Dr. Goetz dug a hole in the ground 8 ft. long and filled it with formalin to preserve his massive specimens. Most interesting to Dr. Goetz were the veins and arteries in the giraffes' long necks. To pump blood so high, giraffes' hearts weigh 25 Ibs., 40 times as much as human hearts. The jugular vein is more than an inch in diameter, and is fitted with an intricate system of efficient valves. They apparently protect the giraffe's head from too much blood when its neck is lowered...
Experimenting on live giraffes was more fun, and harder. Dr. Goetz's original idea was to have an archer pot giraffes with arrows tipped with paralyzing curare, but the giraffes were too skittish, and the arrows did not hit them hard enough to penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around...
...Catheter. With his giraffe securely caged, Dr. Goetz listened to its 25-lb. heart and located the carotid artery, which runs up the neck. He made an incision in the hide, opened the artery and applied a specially built manometer (blood-pressure-measuring instrument) with a catheter 12 ft. long. On its tip was a bit of radioactive cobalt, so its progress could be followed with a Geiger counter as it moved up the artery...
Nomination of Eliot's Lew Goetz as left forward rounds out the Wintergreens contingent. Adams and Dudley did not place any men on the all-star squads...