Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it was shameful for Abelard to have a mistress, it would have been ruinous to his career to marry. But to make amends to Fulbert he married Heloise secretly, trusted Fulbert to keep it dark. The shock of Abelard's betrayal had unsettled Fulbert's mind: when he boasted of his niece's marriage and she boldly denied it, he swore a terrible revenge. One night as Abelard slept hired bravos seized and gelded him. Now there was no longer any place for the arrogant Abelard; he who might have been a prince of the Church...
...second scene, a doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock, in bursts Interne Ferguson to snatch the hypodermic out of his superior's hand, administer his own entirely different treatment...
...immediately after nursing during the "first critical three days of life." Instead of losing seven, eight ounces on the average, the specially fed children lost only an average two ounces. They also rapidly lost "the so-called physiologic apathy, somnolence and stupor in the newborn secondary to birth shock and the compensated acidosis universally present. ... All of the infants began to gain weight on the fifth day of life at a rate which far exceeded that of the babies who were left to fend for themselves...
Besides unripeness, babies suffer a violent shock during the process of being born. The shock shifts the water content of the body cells, also makes them unfit to retain water. The baby is water-starved. To overcome dehydration due to birth shock, Dr. Kugelmass has tried feeding newborns a solution of gelatin, salt and dextrose...
...gelatin, an easily assimilable food, transmits water to the infant. The salt helps to retain water in the baby's system. The gelatin also raises temperature, which is subnormal at birth, and elevates blood pressure, which the shock of birth has lowered. The dextrose supplies calories for the babe's first vital activities...