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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metrazol, a drug with a camphor-like action, he goes into convulsions, stops breathing, shock ensues. Such shock blots out hallucinations, or delusions of persecution. Main trouble with insulin or metrazol treatment, however, is that the profundity and length of the shock cannot be easily controlled. Dr. Harold Edwin Himwich and associates of Albany Medical College reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine that they had devised a new, safer method for depriving the brain of oxygen. They simply attached a five-quart breathing bag filled with pure oxygen to the patient's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Treatments | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Last week three Yale investigators- Drs. Harold Edwin Himwich & Louis Herman Nahum, assisted by N. Rakieten -reported to the International Congress of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology at Rome, that alcohol loads the body with lactic acid. If drinking women bear daughters and abstainers bear sons, thence arises a problem in progeny for eugenists and sociologists to resolve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drinking Women's Daughters | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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