Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hans Fischer achieved his first international fame two years ago. After 17 years of quiet research in his laboratory at Munich, he announced that he had succeeded in synthesizing hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). He used pyrrol, a constituent of the common cure-all known as bone oil, subjected the colorless liquid to a complicated chemical treatment to obtain his results. The synthetic product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure...
...mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen which often will resuscitate persons shocked by electricity, may also be helpful to pneumonia patients, announced New York Edison System Electric Light Co. last week. Dr. John Jay Wittmer, the company's medical chief, used the mixture (7% carbon dioxide, 93% oxygen) on 127 pneumonia cases. Of these 42 were definitely beyond recovery. Of the remaining 85, 70 were cured, 15 died. This relative success, thought the company, warranted informing the medical profession, which might experiment more widely...
...pneumonia, exudates (blood, pus, serum, germs) accumulate in the minute air chambers of the lungs. The lungs lose their sponginess, resemble the liver. In addition, areas of these air cells become devitalized, collapse. All this prevents an adequate amount of oxygen getting into the blood, and waste carbon dioxide and toxins escaping from the blood. The lungs labor to breathe until they and the poisoned heart become exhausted...
Since Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale, by his studies on the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation, indicated the way, doctors have been giving their failing pneumonia patients extra oxygen to breathe. Enough oxygen then can get through the plugged air spaces at each gasp to sustain the dying patient for two, three minutes. Consequently he need not strain to breathe at the normal rate (16 to 20 times a minute...
...taken into the lungs from the blood helps (via the brain) to stimulate the lungs to expand and contract. Based on this physiological fact is the principle of giving cases of electrical shock, and now (experimentally) pneumonia cases, a little lung-stimulating carbon dioxide with the excess of pure oxygen for the blood...