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Anatomists have long held that white skins are tinted by three pigments: melanin, a black chemical; hemoglobin, a reddish substance which colors the blood; oxyhemoglobin, a form of hemoglobin in combination with oxygen. They also believed that Negroes and Orientals are darker than Caucasians partly because of the presence of some special, unknown pigment in their skins...
Called to the home of Louis Faulkner, in the tiny town of Idabel, Okla., last week, young Osteopath George Kenneth Fisher found Charles and Larrie, the four-month-old Faulkner twins, choking from whooping cough. Only oxygen administration could save them, but there were no oxygen tents within 50 miles...
With country-doctor resourcefulness, Osteopath Fisher gathered a tank of oxygen from the village welding shop, a quart fruit jar from Mrs. Faulkner's kitchen, four pieces of rubber tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last week Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and colleagues* of the Mayo Clinic published a complete report of their new doughnut-shaped rubber oxygen mask (TIME, Jan. 16). Oxygen administered in hospitals through cumbersome, complicated oxygen tents usually costs a patient $12 to $25 a day. Use of the small, neat inhalation mask, said Dr. Boothby, "should average only $5 to $8 a day," and in certain cases a patient "can be taught the entire technique of administering the oxygen to himself at home...
...paper). The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid. To U. S. paper mills this waste was as much a nuisance as used razor blades to ordinary citizens. Poured into rivers at the rate of 3,000,000 tons a year, it absorbed the free oxygen in the water, impairing fishing and polluting streams...