Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although most of the soldiers recovered without trouble, some may suffer aftereffects. Those with bits of metal left in their brains are liable to develop epilepsy about six months after injury. As a precaution, all victims of brain wounds were given a year's supply of. drugs to prevent fits...
Heat v. Cold. Blood clots may lodge in the lungs, cause instant death. They may also form in arms or legs, choke off circulation. If they lodge in an artery, they prevent the flow of fresh, oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the limb; if they dam up a vein, they prevent the return of used blood, heavy with body poisons, to the heart. Without proper circulation of the blood to keep them alive, body tissues die, become gangrenous...
Standard gangrene preventive for legs and feet with blocked circulation is plenty of heat. This, says Dr. Silbert, is in many cases "absolutely incorrect." Reason: heat increases metabolism of the tissues, raises their need for fresh blood. To prevent gangrene, tissue metabolism in the legs should be slowed down, the blood vessels given less work to do. Hence he puts ice bags around legs and feet until pain disappears and the limb is able to get enough circulation from substitute blood vessels...
...University decided to close Widener library on Sundays and to heat the University and Peabody museums only enough to prevent freezing...
...virtue of their retreat the British now had certain relative advantages. The coastal strips along which they must prevent Japanese landings in small boats and sampans were considerably shorter than they had been. Because British defenses were deeper and more powerful near Singapore, there was less chance of Jap infiltration tactics working. With the fighting front less than a four-hour drive from Singapore, British lines of communication were shorter. Along them the too few British trucks could carry two loads in the time they had taken for one a fortnight ago. Reinforcements had had time to arrive. The British...