Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drug." Objection No. 2: He did not first try such standard methods of stimulating breath in the newborn as blowing into their mouths, slapping their rumps with a wet towel, tossing them, artificial respiration. Dr. Wilson: "The lapse of one minute may be enough, through the absence of oxygen, to damage permanently the cells of the respiratory centre. Once the drug reaches the new born infant's general circulation, the respiratory gasp takes place in less than twelve seconds. Three constant reactions occur within one to four seconds before the respiratory gasp-an increase in muscle tonus, a stiffening...
Synthetic Atmospheres. Without oxygen animals smother; in pure oxygen they die also because of irritation and congestion in the lungs. Yet it must not be assumed that the best possible mixture for sustaining life is the natural atmospheric mixture of about 79% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and 1% other gases. After twelve years of smothering rats, monkeys and guinea pigs in various artificial atmospheres ranging from pure helium to nitrous oxide, Dr. John Willard Hershey of McPherson College reported that a mixture of 75% argon and 25% oxygen enabled the animals to get along as well as usual, that...
...fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16° C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead of the ordinary 16; the Chandler medal of Columbia University...
...product of breathing and a necessary stimulant which the lungs need to keep functioning. Because of this shortage, the lungs function inadequately, the patient pants, gasps, loses his breath. For lack of carbon dioxide in the lungs the red blood cells in the arteries and veins hold back their oxygen thus causing air hunger throughout the tissues...
...until fever blisters form on their lips. As demonstration of how to offset the specific effects of fever in sick patients, Dr. Fishberg brings her test subjects back to normal by giving them a weak solution of common salt to drink and causing them to inhale a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide...