Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed dowsers at work. Covering his chest with a padded leather jacket, the dowser took in his hands a looped steel divining rod, began to pace the ground. Suddenly the loop shot upward, hit him a hard blow on the chest. Continuing, he charted the outlines of the underground stream. Then using an aluminum rod, which he said was much more sensitive, he estimated the depth of the stream. A rod of still another metal indicated by a chest blow that the water was good for drinking. When Dr. Browne tried to use the rod himself, he could...
...will, that is the brain, cannot boss them. (However, some intense individuals learn how to control their own heart beats by hard thought.) Not only do these particular organs work automatically, they work together. They help each other out through their own nervous switchboard and through the blood stream which carries their messengers (hormones) around. Thus, the adrenal glands above the kidneys manufacture the hormone adrenalin, and adrenalin affects the heart...
...Nothing happened. He shook the hind quarters. At that the heart, whose nerves had been disconnected, started beating faster. He pinched the veins and arteries connecting the heart and the abdominal viscera he was watching. That is, with nerve or telegraph system cut off, he now dammed the blood stream through which a possible hormone might float. The cat's heart now returned to normal. Professor Cannon, wriggling the cat's hind part, released the pinched veins and arteries. The heart again beat faster than normal. Obviously the movements of the cat's lower muscles manufactured something...
Bermuda. Unlike Nassau, Bermuda is not in the West Indies, is not tropical. It lies full in the Atlantic, 779 mi. south-east of New York. But the Gulf Stream makes Bermuda swimming, tennis, golf possible the year round. It is occasionally chilly, foggy in winter, and sometimes uncomfortably hot and mosquitoey in summer. But Bermudians insist that the average temperature does not vary 20° the year round, that the climate is far more equable than any place in the world. Its greatest advantage over Nassau as a U. S. resort: it is 20 hr. nearer New York. Venerable...
...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...