Word: oxygenate
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...Sooner the Better. One of the first of the pressure pioneers, Amsterdam's Dr. Ite Boerema (pronounced Boor-uh-muh), did his earliest work with his smallest patients-"blue babies," whose red blood cells were being starved of oxygen. Born with defects in the heart or its surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells...
...Harry Heller in Tel Aviv, where familial Mediterranean fever is rife. In the U.S.. where there is no comparable concentration of patients, such research would cost at least three or four times as much. Half a world away, Peruvian Indians have lived for centuries on low oxygen concentrations in the high Andes. To learn more about what this has done to their hearts and lungs, and what happens when they go down to the low level at Lima, PHS is backing research by Physiologist Alberto Hurtado. U.S. spacemen are looking anxiously over his shoulder for the answers...
...great cold wave of 1899 . . ." The record cold so threatened the survival of southern Europe's migratory birds that the International Hunting Council asked European governments to ban all hunting until the spring thaw; in Italy and Germany, fish hatcheries reported widespread losses as ice cut off the oxygen supply of breeding fish...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube has been chopping costs for years by automating rolling mills, using oxygen and the highest iron-content ores to speed up its furnaces, and finally, says President A. S. Glossbrenner, "all our efforts seemed to have clicked...
This was hardly yacht fare, and Muriel appealed. The Georgia Supreme Court voided the trial, citing 39 errors, and ordered it held again in Mclntosh County. This time Reynolds showed up, wheezing into an oxygen machine. Even more sympathetic, the jury gave Reynolds his divorce again, with no permanent alimony for Muriel...