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Last week young Mr. Rand bought Dr. Cunningham's sphere for $500,000, will henceforth operate it with the help of Dr. Carl William Iuler, 36, as the Ohio Institute of Oxygen Therapy...
...Cunningham, 54, originally from Kansas City, believes that organisms which live only in the absence of oxygen cause certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia, and cancer. To him, the logical treatment is to saturate the patient with oxygen under pressure, which theoretically permeates to the morbid organisms and kills them. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association, after due consideration, has denounced this theory of therapy as so much quackery. Nevertheless, Henry Holiday Timken, reclusive roller-bearing tycoon, had sufficient faith in Dr. Cunningham's ideas to give him $1,000,000 to construct his tank hospital...
Early that morning the battered, blackened barge Ready had been towed by the tug Powerful from St. George, Bermuda, to a point eight miles off lovely Nonsuch Island. Bracketed on the inside wall of the bathysphere were oxygen tanks. Trays of soda lime (to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide) and calcium chloride (to absorb moisture) were stowed in. Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton wedged themselves in, smiling and waving. They were confident their bathysphere would stand up under the great pressure a half-mile down (1,300 lb. per sq. in.) because a few days before it had been lowered empty...
...next party, under Brigadier-General Charles Granville Bruce in 1922, pushed a series of camps up from the glacier. Using oxygen, Capt. J. Geoffrey Bruce and another man reached 27,300 ft., turned back utterly spent. The wet monsoons came early that year, bringing heavy snow to the bare windswept rocks near the summit. When the snow had hardened somewhat a group of five started up across the precarious North Col where the temperature probably averages -50°. An avalanche swept nine porters into a crevasse. Only two were rescued...
Babies in the forming, physiologists now know, are sensitive to changes in the amount of oxygen the mothers get into their blood. Embryos also are sensitive to relative acidity of maternal blood, and to spasms and dilations of maternal blood vessels...