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Unless the anesthetist and surgeon take precautions, four out of five patients who undergo abdominal operations suffer partial collapse, wrote Dr. Henderson. Their respiration is shallow, their pulse rapid. In most cases this can be prevented if the surgeon "traumatizes as little as possible" and if the patient whiffs at carbon dioxide off & on for three or four hours after the operation. The carbon dioxide stimulates the lungs to breathe deeply, thus raises the body's general tone...
...policy pursued at Geneva. . . . The spectacular activities of Anthony Eden, Minister for League Affairs, may impress public opinion for a time, yet the Government know that the impression is unstable unless it is borne out by facts, which are not forthcoming. Therefore haste is imperative before the partial failure of the plan for collective security through Geneva stands revealed...
...partial vacuum of those pleural cavities the lungs expand and collapse, expand and collapse with each breath. Sometimes infection inflames the lining of a pleural cavity, causes an exudation which fills the cavity and leaves no space for the lung to expand. In such a case of pleurisy, the fluid has to be drained off through a hollow needle carefully pushed in between a pair of ribs...
With lean Colonel de la Rocque ordering the youths of the Croix de Feu to mobilize all over France in a series of ominous mass meetings, Newspundit Henri de Kerillis declared in L'Echo de Paris: "An order for mobilization against Italy, even a partial one, an act of war, even limited to a simple act of aggression toward Italy, would create in France a violent commotion of bloody, of desperate resistance and an atmosphere of civil...
Whereas the discussion in study groups last year were largely of a theeretical nature, the Society plans this year, as a partial result of the present world crisis, to organize study groups which will approach the question of peace from a more practical point of view, it was explained by Robert T. Bentley, librarian...