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Long before the operation, often the night before, the patient gets a preanes-thetic, usually a barbiturate, to quiet him down. In the morning, he may get more of the same, or a morphine-type drug, or both. Next, atropine to help keep mucus from clogging his air passages. In the operating room at last, a clout of barbiturate (often thiopental sodium) to put him to sleep. Then the anesthesiologist rigs the patient with a mask-or, especially for chest operations, a tube inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases...
...days it was touch and go. First Denett seemed the weaker, then Jeanett sank alarmingly, with mucus threatening to choke her. Surgeons cut a hole in her neck and passed a silver tube into her windpipe to provide extra oxygen and speed drainage. Next day Jeanett went into unexplained spasms. Adrenaline-like drugs, and her own vitality, pulled her through that crisis. Last week, with infinite relief, the University of Oregon doctors pronounced the operation a success. Their greatest immediate danger past, both babies were doing well...
...smear" is nc' done routinely in hundreds of U.S. laboratories, for an estimated total of 3.000,000 tests a year-most of them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker cough up deep mucus to reveal lung cancer; swallowed balloons and brushes to catch cells from stomach cancer; special washings to reveal disease in the large bowel and rectum...
...Fraser-Purves theory: the spout is foam (mucus, gas and globules of emulsified oil) that forms in the whale's lungs. When the whale surfaces after a dive and empties its lungs, the foam expelled is the visible spout...
...given loose soil to dig in. The idea is to bring them to bouchage in top condition. Fat and healthy, they dig their nests and seal themselves in for the winter. Then the snail breeders dig them up and ship them to buyers. When snails are broiled, the mucus in which they are sealed reaches the boiling point. Then the snails "sing," says Cadart. Enough snails sang their death songs in France during 1952 to reach in a slowly crawling line all the way around the earth...