Word: oxygenate
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...Tonopah's five-story brick Mizpah Hotel. Four days before Election he was taken to the Washoe General Hospital, on Reno's outskirts. On Nov. 5 he was reelected, by 6,000 votes, over Republican Samuel Platt. But Key Pittman was dying. His heart was feeble. An oxygen tent kept life in him for several hours. Just after midnight, as Sunday began, he died...
First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells. From the liquid part of the blood oozes a sticky jelly which clumps all the cells together. These clumps are gobbled down by white blood corpuscles. If the white cells are strong enough, the body wins...
...white cells cling to them like flies to fly paper. As the red clumps grow larger, the liquid part of the blood turns thick and sludgy, and the heart is harder and harder put to it to pump against the blockade. When circulation stagnates, the body's oxygen is cut off. and finally the heart stops...
...which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms of angina...
...normal air, breathing is controlled by the respiratory centre in the medulla, which is part of the brain. But this centre is itself enfeebled by oxygen lack, passes control to secondary centres, the carotid bodies in the neck and the aortic body near the heart. Lack of oxygen stimulates instead of enfeebling these secondary centres, and they send out stronger and stronger impulses to the respiration muscles. If the lungs suddenly get more oxygen, the carotid and aortic bodies rest, turn back control to the centre in the medulla. But that stupefied centre may not be in shape to take...