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Another danger of high-altitude flying is "anoxia" (lack of oxygen). If a pressurized plane should suddenly lose its air at 40,000 ft., the passengers, according to Swearingen, would lose consciousness in seven seconds, die in 45 seconds. Loss of pressure at 40,000 ft., said a CAA man, "is a complete catastrophe-like a wing falling...
Fame does not cure berylliosis. Tuberculosis attacked Dr. Gardner's poisoned lungs. He spent most of his time in Vallejo Community Hospital, often under an oxygen tent. Even when feeling his best, he was forbidden by the doctors to lift his newborn daughter Claire, now two years old. But he kept a microscope near his bed and worked on his meson research whenever he had enough strength. During his final hours under an oxygen tent, knowing that death would no longer be denied, he worked with pencil and notebook, painfully gleaning his brain while he still had time...
...ordinary turbojet engine is lengthened and inside its throat is placed a grid of hollow, perforated cross-pieces. When maximum power is needed, fuel is squirted into the stream of hot gas racing out of the tailpipe. There is plenty of heat to ignite it and plenty of oxygen to keep it alight. So a vast yellow flame bursts out of the pipe, and the plane gets a mighty shove forward...
...fetus," suggested Dr. Ingalls in explanation, "has been blighted by what might be called intrauterine drought . . . [It may be] a metabolic drought, a biochemical upset, transient vitamin or enzyme deficiency, or oxygen lack." The likelihood that oxygen shortage may be the villain in many cases is heightened, said Dr. Ingalls, by the fact that mongolism often results from a pregnancy marked by early vaginal bleeding, and this bleeding might starve the fetal brain of oxygen...
Skull, Lip & Palate. To test his theory, Dr. Ingalls and colleagues at Harvard's School of Public Health took 300 mice in batches of 20, subjected them to oxygen lack (artificial "high altitude") for five hours on certain days of their pregnancies. Mice, unlike men, do not suffer from mongolism. But Dr. Ingalls found skull defects (actually worse than mongolism) in about a third of the litters which had been starved of oxygen on the eighth day of development. Lack of oxygen on the twelfth day gave them harelip, on the 14th day, cleft palate...