Word: oxygenate
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...Oxygen Speed-Up. Plasma is the fluid part of the blood in which the red and white corpuscles and the clotting platelets are suspended. During World War I, when thousands of lives were lost for lack of fresh whole blood for transfusion, medical men thought most of the deaths were caused by the loss of red blood corpuscles. Later they discovered that the loss of the blood fluid was more serious, that when a patient suffers shock from burns, wounds or hemorrhage, the sluggish blood stream prevents the red corpuscles, even when plenty are left, from taking enough oxygen...
Plasma transfusions supply a satisfactory fluid for speeding up the oxygen traffic, draw fluid that has leaked into the tissues back into the circulation. Another advantage: all people have the same kind of plasma so that plasma transfusions can be given to anybody regardless of blood type...
This is not the first time that Mann has started a controversy over some phase of swimming. At the '32 Olympics in Los Angeles, he put up a big objection to the Japanese swimmers' practice of using oxygen tanks to rejuvenate themselves after an event...
...rubber] by covering them with a tarpaulin or other heavy, tightly woven fabric. The darker the storage place the better. Heat and air have a very destructive effect on casings. Seventy or 80 degrees Fahrenheit should be the maximum storage temperature. Drafts and moving air replenish the supply of oxygen, causing the casing to deteriorate more rapidly...
...sailors receive more first-aid training, that large ships have 15 or 20 first-aid posts, small ships at least half a dozen. > Even though the enemy used no gas, masks were necessary because of thick black smoke from fuel-oil fires. Many men were overcome by lack of oxygen when they rushed into compartments where bombs had exploded...