Word: oxygenation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Giving him a hypodermic of strychnine at best was a useless procedure. It may have done him harm. All the man needed was air. Had it been at hand, inhalation of a mixture of oxygen and carbonic acid might have been called for. At any rate, that is what should be found on ambulances today. In all probability this fireman did not need even that, since he does not seem to have been much knocked out. The use of ammonia might have been justified, particularly after the man was moved well away from the smoke, but even it is doubtful...
Suffocation. Dr. Evans forgets that the incident took place ten or twelve years ago. What Dr. Arrowsmith did was quite in accord with the therapy of his period. The carbonic oxygen treatment was not then known. Even now, few small town fire departments are equipped with the apparatus...
...member of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps, and one of its Examiners, I hasten to set your writer on the right path. We teach that the true cause of death by drowning, asphyxiation (smoke or gas), or electric shock is paralysis of the diaphragm. A man requires oxygen, of which the air contains 20%, and he must eliminate carbon dioxide gas, the reaction of which itself will paralyze or inhibit his diaphragm...
Cinema? "Development must come from the centre, not from the periphery." Nobel Prizes? "The prize-winners are like the modest hotels in Baedeker -'well spoken of: " American "hustle"? "George [Washington] did not run around like a mouse in oxygen as the modern American does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism...
Germs' Breath. How, what, do bacteria breathe? The animal organism that causes sleeping sickness needs oxygen but died of an overdose. The plant organism that causes tuberculosis also needs oxygen, died when deprived of it. The latter was thought to grow slowly in its human host not because it gets no oxygen, but because it gets very little.-Drs. F. G. Novy and M. H. Soule, University of Michigan...