Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...live, sustained him until that day. That Saturday morning the death passion set in. To his sagging jaw, as he lay propped up on his white pillows in the clinic of St. Jean in Brussels, a sad nursing sister held tenderly the rubber tube from the tank of oxygen standing on the bedside table. Consciousness did not leave him entirely. He saw facing him on an opposite wall the sorrowful, pain-wracked figure of the Crucified. He saw his two nephews, Father Joseph Mercier and Professor Charles Jean Mercier, of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. He smiled wanly...
...amount of air necessary to sustain life." Stretching his length on an operating table, he had his arteries opened, his blood tested. He was glad to be blue, because this color change and the blood tests proved that he was right in his theory that there is not enough oxygen in the blood to compensate for loss of air even under the most favorable circumstances...
...tissues of the heart itself, the limbs, the skin. From the terminal arterioles tiny capillaries suck this blood into venules like tiny, feeble fountains trickling foul blood back to the heart. This venous blood the heart pumps into the lungs for the filth to be burnt there by inhaled oxygen, carried away as carbon dioxide. From the lungs the blood returns red to the heart, which starts it again through the arteries...
...smother the fish. They breathe and must have plenty of oxygen. . . . When the fish come to the surface and gasp, this indicates that the oxygen in the water has been exhausted and the water should be changed...
...Baxter '96, Professor of Chemistry, for two years, for research connected with the determination of atomic weights through the density and compressibilities of gases. Results obtained with oxygen and helium have proved very valuable, and it is hoped that in the immediate future the studies may include experiments on hydrogen, nitrogen, and some of the rare gases...