Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came by the hundreds and then by the thousands. They came from as far away as New Orleans and Oklahoma City, over a million of them. They trampled Homer's grass. They tied up traffic for 20 blocks. Old people came in wheelchairs and one man in an oxygen tent. Sometimes they called up Homer at 3 a.m. to ask him to turn on the lights. "It was worth it," says Homer, "to watch parents with tears in their eyes explain the Christmas story to their children. One little boy told his mother he didn't want...
After centuries of living 2½ miles or so above sea level, says Dr. Monge, the Andean native has become "a climato-physiological variety of the human race." To cope with the low oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart...
Conditions in the Israeli air corps were technically primitive. At first the planes had no radios or oxygen. The fields were poor and the mechanics skilled only in automobile repairing. Besides a single fighter squadron which never had more than 11 planes or 16 pilots there were only a few bombers. Never were more than four planes were off the ground, and some days not even one could...
...priming charge. The veins returning blood to the subject's heart are closed by clamps, and the blood from these veins is pumped into the machine. Revolved 50 to 100 times a minute, the blood spreads into a thin film on the sides of the drum. It absorbs oxygen, which is pumped into the drum, and gives off carbon dioxide, which is withdrawn. Then the refreshed blood is pumped back into the body through an artery. The machine is governed at every step by electrical controls...
...minutes. He will not even guess when the apparatus will be ready to try on humans. The work of the heart can be done, and done well, by the pumping system; but he is not yet satisfied with the way it does the work of the lungs (putting fresh oxygen into the blood). The lungs' myriad air cells have an absorption area of about 600 sq. ft. A machine duplicating so large an area would be unwieldy. Dr. Gibbon must solve this problem before he can close off a human heart and operate on it while the blood flows...