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...cases like hers, the abnormal sickle cells pile up periodically, and many red cells break down, thus lower the hemoglobin-and hence the available oxygen in the blood. The victim feels fatigue, a racing heartbeat, shortness of breath and, as a result of clots which form during the crisis, often severe abdominal pain and aching joints. "Blood transfusions were routine with me," says Marclan. "Long cuts were made on my ankles so the doctors could insert needles into larger veins than they could find in my arms ... At times I would have convulsions, and there would be other times when...
...Army Jupiter with Little Old Reliable aboard got off its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a perfect takeoff. Atop the passenger's head was a tiny helmet with a microphone attached to record vocal sounds, and fitted into the little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing...
mind without soul may blast some universe to might have been,and stop ten thousand stars but not one heartbeat of this child ;nor shall even prevail a million questionings against the silence of his mother's smile
...participate in "the 'spooning' that I had reason to suspect went on between students." Instead she wrote blank verse. Visiting Manhattan with her father, Fannie looked down from a hotel window and saw her future. People, she remembers, were "flowing like slow molasses, yet full of heartbeat and fear and hope and power and-infinity. Those people down there were composed of persons." She would have to live in New York, find the persons among the people, glaze them with her words...
Great danger in all major operations inside the chest is that the nerve centers controlling breathing and heartbeat will stop. The deeper the anesthesia, the greater the danger. So surgeons and anesthesiologists have tried to develop "light anesthesia" methods, which should be safer. One way of checking whether the anesthesia is light enough, Marmer reasoned, was to make hypnosis a part of it so that the patient could be awakened during the operation...