Word: reflexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opium which children's specialists now say is dangerous. According to Dr. Hamburger, "Paregoric . . . was what [Johns Hopkins'] Dr. Osier took when he himself was ill with broncho-pneumonia." Habitual constipation, "excluding diseases of the intestines and adjacent structures," Dr. Hamburger declared "is usually an ill-conditioned reflex, often associated with the abuse of purgative drugs. Most of these patients can be cured by explaining how the mechanism of defecation has been deranged and by reconditioning them by persistent daily attempts at a fixed hour to move the bowels...
...week, moved him to inquire into the behavior of drivers involved in such accidents. Many a driver explains: "The car went out of control." To Dr. Henderson it seemed rather that the motorist went out of control. When a driver is jounced off balance in his seat, a powerful reflex comes into play to restore his equilibrium. So strong is this that it obliterates the ordinary conditioned reflexes of good driving. Then, according to Dr. Henderson, the driver behaves as follows...
...violent body contortions by which a sedate burgher tries to keep his feet when he slips on an icy walk are the results of a deep-rooted reflex possessed by all animals, fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed...
Coroner Edwin Smith was not surprised at the result of the old man's first and last bath. Commented Doctor Smith: "There are some persons who are entire strangers to baths." Cause of death: "reflex syncope" (shock...
...Uritsky rostrum, rang a bell. Long ago Dr. Pavlov conducted an experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex. It proved that imagination has power over body, directs the basic cravings of living creatures. That proof earned Dr. Pavlov a Nobel Prize (1904), the gratitude of Christian Science, the devotion of physiologists, and the respect of Russian peasants and workers. Today he continues his researches in the fine big Institute...