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Weak Hearts & Oxygen. Several types of heart disease can be helped by keeping the patient in atmosphere of 40% to 50% oxygen, reported Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach of Manhattan.* The excess oxygen increases the amount of blood the heart pumps each beat and thus aids the flow of blood through hardened arteries, or it helps maintain circulation when the heart is jolted by a blood clot plugging a blood vessel. The oxygen treatment relieves shortness of breath, lowers pulse rate, improves appetite, aids elimination of body poisons. It does not help tuberculosis of the lungs...
...controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record: 27,418 ft., by Elinor Smith...
...Angeles hospital last week a Mrs. Maude Branton, 43, clergyman's wife, inhaled ether, oxygen and nitrous oxide as anesthetic for an operation. This mixture of gases is explosive. In Mrs. Branton's case something ignited the mixture in her lungs. The mixture exploded, the lungs burst, Mrs. Branton died. A coroner's jury decided that no one was to blame...
...chief hazards . . . that have to be compared are fatal failure of respiration, syncope [serious fainting] and collapse, postanesthetic necrosis [decay] of the liver (chiefly from chloroform), post-operative pneumonia, persistent hiccup, flares and fires from ether, the bursting of cylinders containing any gas under pressure, and particularly cylinders of oxygen or nitrous oxide if the valve is oiled, and, finally, explosions in anesthetic apparatus in which ethylene or ether is administered...
There lies the main obstacle to the plan: the problem of re-purification of the combined gases. Experimenters now propose passing the polluted gas under pressure over copper oxide, which would act as a catalytic agent and cause the hydrogen and oxygen to form water...