Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average man has about eleven pints of blood. Loss of more than a third usually causes profound shock, from which the body can seldom be revived even by transfusion. But at the Cleveland Clinic, two top-rank U.S. scientists have succeeded in reversing "irreversible" shock in revolutionary blood experiments on dogs...
Heart Specialist Irvine H. Page and Biophysicist Otto Glasser drained more than half of the dogs' blood, kept them in profound shock for two to three hours. Then, in place of the usual transfusion into a vein, they pumped blood into an artery, under pressure. In 70% of the cases, the dogs survived. In one experiment, dogs were bled to the point of death. Twenty out of 23 were revived after they had been clinically "dead" (no heartbeat or breathing) for five minutes...
Moreover, he wrote about U.S. life as sympathetically as Alexis de Tocqueville, and despite his foreign habits and ideas, made a profound impression on young Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson met him by chance in a St. Augustine boarding house one winter, described him as "an ardent lover of truth," a "scholar," a "noble" soul...
...Journal reporter named Albert Tenney. Dr. Morton's "preparation," fed to the patient through a tube from a corked flask, was ether, disguised with aromatic essences to hide the "secret." The operation, conducted by Dr. John Collins Warren, frock-coated chief surgeon of Massachusetts General Hospital, made a profound impression on doctors and medical students in the small, gloomy amphitheater. Cried Dr. Warren: "Gentlemen, this is no humbug...
Born in Milwaukee and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Frederick Merk quite naturally followed in the footsteps of Turner, 1893 author of the attitude - smashing "Significance of the Frontier in American History," for the latter had been a professor at Wisconsin. His influence there was profound even before it spread throughout the "corpus of American history teaching," says Professor Merk, who, when he came to Harvard in 1918, found Turner here and worked in his seminar. In 1921 he began to teach what is now History 62, sharing it with his older colleague. Along with teaching the first half...