Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the recent use of adrenalin to resuscitate adults at the point of death from shock (TiME, April 14), the extract has again been employed with apparent success to start the life processes in four babies in the metropolitan district of New York, who were born dead or too weak to live. Keen interest in these cases is being displayed by medical men, and further study of the possibilities of adrenalin has been stimulated. At some hospitals it has been used extensively, though not specifically for this purpose. The delicate operation is attended by danger on account of the piercing...
...perhaps a shock to certain industrious vendors, to learn that their wares are illicit; and it will be an equal shock to many of their patrons. The recent court decision would apply equally to the College: lectures, until printed, are the property of the professors, and their sale for the profit of another person is illegal. In the College, however, leniency has been shown; many courses are largely an accumulation of fact, which can be conveniently condensed into notes; and such vest-pocket editions, properly used, do little harm. But in courses which are intended to develop processes of thinking...
...Jeannette a staid young man is insane from a sudden shock. On his recovery many years later he goes to a dance given by his niece; but the wildness of the younger generation renews the shock and his former malady...
...Henry Kitchell Webster and Edwin Balmer, both popular novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago; Ben Hecht, who aims to shock; and last, but oh! not least, Carl Sandburg...
...TIME. The effect of the treatment is to contract the blood vessels, especially in the limbs, increase the blood pressure and stimulate the heart. It could not, of course, be used to restore a patient who had died from a long, wasting disease, but in cases of violent shock where death has ensued because of a rush of blood from the heart to the blood vessels, adrenalin is effective...