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...ultimate remissions of dementia praecox (psychiatrists never speak of cures) than would occur anyhow. All that is certain is that it cuts the average hospital stay. And no one yet knows just how any kind of shock therapy works: some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental hospital...
...grasp; its flat torso permits it to squeeze into the smallest cracks; its nimble legs give it unparalleled speed and shiftiness; its skin is so sensitive to light that even when blinded it infallibly finds a dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known creature that can live without vitamin A or C or nitrogen. Its voracity is the most catholic in the insect world-it eats paint, bedbugs, hair, grease, wallpaper, gold lettering on books...
Under the stress of tiring work or a shortage of oxygen, the cortex (outer layer) of the kidneys' adrenal glands secretes unusual amounts of certain hormones known as 17-ketosteroids (containing one oxygen and 17 carbon atoms). They are discharged in the urine. The investigators discovered that the output of ketosteroids (and of urine) rose in direct proportion to fatigue and loss of efficiency. There was wide variation among individuals; those with the greatest stamina showed the smallest secretion of ketosteroids...
...alert Captain Spencer is invited to what seems to be a Luftwaffe officers' mess. In the ensuing friendly shop talk, he reveals that a head cold is the reason his mission commander has been dropped from the projected flight. Colds are serious to flyers only when they don oxygen masks. The only prime German target separated from Naples by oxygen-mask mountain altitudes is Munich. When U.S. bombers head for Munich's Hermann Goring oil works, Messerschmitts are waiting for them...
...speed at which a rocket would have to travel to get free of the earth's gravity has been calculated as seven miles per second. The best rocket fuel yet tried (liquid oxygen and gasoline or alcohol) has a theoretical propulsive limit of two miles per second, and no actual rocket has approached that limit. Using the best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels...