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Against coronary thrombosis and embolism attacks, doctors used to be fairly helpless; standard treatment was to dope the patient, give him oxygen to relieve the strain on the heart and a drug to relax the blood vessels. In most cases, patients survived one attack, succumbed to a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Hearts? | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...field, he developed a way of measuring movement of stars by photography, established giant and dwarf star groups, was one of two Princeton men to win doctorates in physics summa cum laude. Professor Russell once predicted that, in about a billion years, the earth's atmospheric oxygen will be used up, and in a few billion more "the universe will be thoroughly uninteresting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time to Retire | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...simpler type, promising for the future, is the ram jet or "flying stovepipe," which has no moving parts at all. But both turbojets and ram jets need oxygen, and so cannot operate outside the lower atmosphere. For really high altitude work, an effective guided missile must have its own rocket motor, as the V25 did, and must carry its own oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Push-Button War | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Sensational news made the last few issues of the CRIMSON a sneak thief was unfortunate enough to be identified while pilfering a room in Westmerely, while up at Jefferson Laboratories some oil in an oxygen tank was the cause of an explosion fatal to two workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports, Tradition Played Major Role in '22 As Post-War College Returned to 'Normal" | 6/4/1947 | See Source »

...interrelation between physiological processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mark of Merit | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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