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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arteries about the diameter of a soda straw. If anything happens to these coronary arteries, the heart muscles are quickly poisoned and cease to function. Result: Death. The most serious thing that can happen to these arteries is sudden clogging of the blood flow. This may occur when: 1) a blood clot floating through the circulatory system (i.e., embolus) jams in a coronary artery; or 2) disease so roughens the smooth wall of a coronary artery that blood cells accumulate like silt on a river bar (i. e., thrombus). In either case the victim of coronary thrombosis, who may think...
...Students who wish to be considered for vacancies as they occur should fill out an application for the Waiting List at C University Hall. A number of rooms in College dormitories outside the Yard are available for 1936-37. Applications for these rooms should be made at Lehman Hall immediately. Students who have reserved a room in the College dormitories will be allowed to cancel their reservations without change in case they later receive assignment to a room in a House...
Leukoma is opacity of the eye's cornea, that transparent coating which shields the iris and the pupil and is supported by the aqueous humor. Immediately behind the iris lies the crystalline lens, which focuses light images upon the retina. Leukoma may occur when the cornea is struck by a blow, is spattered with hot fluids or metals, or is diseased by smallpox, tuberculosis, trachoma, gonorrhea, syphilis. Provided that a person with an opaque cornea 1) can distinguish between light and dark and 2) has completely recovered from any contagious disease, Dr. Filatov last week declared that he could...
Doctors have had great difficulty in analyzing the chemical changes which occur in patients who run temperatures as the result of diseases such as measles, diphtheria, influenza, tuberculosis, dysentery. Last fortnight young Dr. Ella Harriet Fishberg of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital reported on pure fever uncomplicated by germs, viruses or poisons...
...theological principle opposed to any procedure which interrupts pregnancy. Nevertheless Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig, famed St. Louis gynecologist, author of last week's milestone text, finds that every tribe, nation, people and race from time immemorial has practiced abortion. After careful figuring, he decided that 681,600 abortions occur each year in the U. S., causing some 10,000 maternal deaths. According to Dr. Taussig, much of this mortality is due to secretiveness growing out of laws which declare abortions criminal unless performed to preserve the health or life of the mother...