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...crew and newsmen saw the actual incision in Mrs. Kerr's abdomen and the quick, dramatic extraction of the full-term baby. The TV audience was cut in again just in time to see Gordon, already swabbed down, get his umbilical cord tied, his mouth drained of mucus and drops put in his eyes. Gordon's response: a lusty wail. For her pains, Mrs. Kerr got a $100 defense bond...
...after being upended and drained of mucus under the camera's eye, Michael Gallagher gave his first yell. A few minutes later, Mrs. Gallagher raised herself groggily, looked at the camera, and took another swig of Coke...
...suffocating victim of respiratory poliomyelitis, help in breathing may not be enough. He must be helped to cough as well, in order to clear out the mucus accumulating in his paralyzed lungs. Last week in Houston, a group of polio researchers was told of a machine that both breathes and coughs for its occupant. This "lung" operates by means of a gadget that permits it to explode a sudden spurt of air against the patient's chest. It has passed its first laboratory tests. To perfect his gadget, Columbia University Researcher Alvan L. Barach got $8,300 from...
...vigorous stomach contractions caused Tom to suffer cramping "hunger" pains. Pinches and pricking and electric shocks sufficient to cause intense pain to a man's skin had no effect on Tom's gastric mucosa. But when a spot on his stomach lining was stripped of its protecting mucus and sprinkled with mustard, it became very sensitive. Strong pressure with a glass rod or from a balloon inflated in his stomach to 1,500 cc. gave Tom a stomachache...
...doctors found out some new things about ulcers by producing a small ulcer on a bit of exposed stomach membrane. Mucus protects healthy stomach walls from being digested by their own juices, but this area did not have much mucus, and an ulcer developed when the doctors merely dropped gastric juice on it. The spot bled and grew for four days. Meanwhile the whole stomach lining became inflamed and produced more gastric juice than before. The doctors found "a vicious cycle is set up [by stomach ulcers], since the acid gastric juice in contact with a denuded region induces further...