Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale Medical Society by Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cannon who spoke on "The Explanation of a Mysterious Emotional Increase in the Heart Rate," revealed that a chemical substance, which he has named "sympathin" is given off by smooth muscle when stimulated by nerves attached to the spinal cord, over which the brain has no control, and affects the heart directly as does adrenalin. It has previously been supposed that adrenalin and allied substances were given off by the adrenal glands. This discovery is termed by scientists an important...
...experiment. Using a cat, he severed all nerves connected with the heart, as well as all nerves connected with every organ which produces known hormones. He also cut the upper spinal cord transversely. The only nerves left intact were a few strands running from the spinal cord to the smooth muscle of the lower abdominal region. He then caused the fore part of the animal to struggle, and observed no change in the heart rate. After causing the hind part of the animal to struggle, however, he noticed a slow increase in the heart rate. Since the only connection left...
...Since the only tissue known to be affected by sympathetic stimulation in this region is smooth muscle," Dr. Cannon explained, "and since the only connection between the hind part of the animal is the blood stream, and since interfering with the stream in the region where smooth muscle is stimulated either markedly depresses or abolishes the response, the inferences are drawn that a substance is given off from smooth muscle into the blood, that it is carried effectively by the blood to distant organs, and that it influences those organs in a favorable manner, i.e., as sympathetic impulses would influence...
Constant efforts are being made to help young people become acclimatized to strange and new conditions. The attempts made to ease the way after graduation are keeping pace with the endeavors to smooth the transition from preparatory schools to colleges. It is not unfair to say that the former should receive the greater emphasis because a wrong step taken at the beginning of a business or professional career is often irremediable. To prevent such mistakes is the task of the graduate advisers. They are in no sense to be considered employment agencies, but they can render signal service by informing...
...behind this report was that Lingle had been murdered on orders of the North Side Aiello-Zuta gang, that consequent police activity had damaged Gangster Capone's vice and gambling business on the South Side and that the "turning up" of Brothers was simply a Capone device to smooth public outrage and deflect police scrutiny...