Word: heart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warm, shallow waters of the Adriatic off smart Lido Beach lapped up with unconcern, last week, a profound secret. Locked in the brain of an elderly gentleman who died of a heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither Semitic nor Aryan, who, before Rome was founded, lived on the fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever...
...Union Atheist Convention just ended and the delegates not yet back home- with the Soviet Congress not a month ago having passed a resolution limiting religious propaganda-and what do we see? An incredible proceeding-a mass Baptism by a religious cult in the Moscow River- in the heart of the proletarian section of the city-under the very walls of the Triangle Brewery!! [Such things are] incredible! . . . Inexplicable! . . . Intolerable...
Because the living heart is a generator of electricity, two heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where...
...trap the heart's action current they would strap two electrodes to the subject's chest, one above the heart's top, the other about six inches lower. From the electrodes ran 60-ft. wires to a "cardiotachometer," which Dr. Boas devised. Vacuum tubes in the cardiotachometer amplified the heart action current which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep...
...most important observation that Drs. Boas and Weiss made is that the heart rate of an individual during sleep is an index of the speed at which his heart must beat to meet his physiological needs. In sleep he is least disturbed by thoughts or outside influences. Sleeping normal heart rates ranged roughly from 40 to 55 beats a minute for males, 50 to 65 beats for females, whereas the generally accepted "normal" rate for males is 62, for females...