Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bubble-bothered fish approach the Rappahannock, they will lose control of their swimming muscles. Pulses of electric current shot into the water from electrodes will make their tails wiggle rhythmically, steering them helplessly toward the ship. When they get close enough, the intake current of a powerful fish pump will suck them aboard. If this system works as the bureau hopes, it will revolutionize the business of harvesting fish that travel in dense schools...
Assisted by local surgeons, the doctors treated sinus cancer by cutting into the external carotid artery, inserting a thin polyethylene tube, and stitching it in place. They hooked this up to an infusion bottle and a pump, which delivered a quart of saline solution every 24 hours. So potent is the drug that this volume contained only one six-hundredth of an ounce of Methotrexate. Every six hours, a nurse gave an intramuscular injection of CF. For women with cervical cancer, polyethylene tubes are set in arteries on both sides of the lower abdomen...
Another unusual heart condition was reported last week. Among the anomalies that may develop in the unborn child is one where the veins which should lead oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left side of the heart are hooked up incorrectly and pump it back into the right side. Difficult to detect, the condition used to be untreatable, and usually caused death before age 20. Now, with the aid of heart-lung machines, it can be corrected. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal of a case at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, Drs. Richard L. Golden and Charles A. Bertrand...
High Cost of Conservation. Leading the opposition is Jersey Standard's Humble Oil & Refining Co., Texas' biggest producer. It wants secondary-recovery wells closed down each month much as the ordinary wells are (which are now allowed to pump only eight days a month). Secondary-recovery operators claim that it harms their kind of wells to close them down. The secondary-recovery operators also argue that they deserve preference because it costs 50% to 150% more to operate by their methods...
...Reverse Pump. The most widely accepted model, developed by Sweden's Dr. Tage Malmstrom, consists of a metal cup with a rubber hose (part of which serves as a handle) leading to an ordinary bicycle pump with a reverse valve so that it pumps air out instead of in. Drs. James A. Chalmers and Roger J. Fothergill, in the British Medical Journal, report use of the gadget in 100 cases at Worcester. The metal cup is inserted in the opening of the birth canal and applied to the baby's skull. Pressure is reduced to half an atmosphere...