Word: potassium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing else had been done, the heart would have continued beating during the operation. But after letting the heart beat long enough to empty itself of blood, the doctors injected potassium citrate, which arrested the beat...
...open the flaccid right ventricle, drew the remaining blood from it, and located the opening in the septum. He sutured the sides of the hole together. Then he took the clamp off the aorta and let blood from the artificial heart flow back into nature's heart. The potassium citrate soon washed out and-with no artificial prodding-the heart resumed its normal rhythm even before Effler could finish closing the ventricle wall. Last week, nine weeks after the operation, the youngster was home and hopping...
...tickling the back of the throat, administering solutions of mustard or potassium tartrate, or by injecting other emetic drugs...
...standard cough suppressants-syrup, steam inhalations, potassium iodide, codeine and various barbiturates-had no effect. After eight days of steady coughing at 15-to-30-second intervals, the girl was close to death from exhaustion. As a last resort, Dr. Richard Gwartney, a specialist in psychosomatic medicine, attempted a much-debated remedy: medical hypnosis. With several attendant physicians, Gwartney sat by the girl's bed and explained what he intended to do, without mentioning the term hypnotism. Said he, in a report on the case last week: "It was all verbal suggestion. I told her she wanted...
Early last year the West German firm of Peter Meyns bought sodium bichromate and potassium bichromate (used in tanning leather) and paraffin wax from the U.S., had the chemicals shipped to West Germany. The Glasgow firm of Arbuckle, Smith & Co., a topnotch forwarding outfit which ships most of the Scotch whisky to the U.S., then stepped in and bought the consignment. Shortly afterward, the U.S. Commerce Dept. charged that Arbuckle, Smith had shipped the chemicals to Red China, where they would bring $100,000, or almost double their U.S. price. The Bureau of Foreign Commerce asked Arbuckle, Smith...