Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vein, the other in an artery. Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes, and a hose that is hooked onto the bathroom faucet...
Meanwhile, a nurse from the Brigham has put sterile coils in the tank's bath of dialysate (filtering solution) and added chemicals. She uses about l½ pints of the lawyer's blood, stored from the last treatment, to prime the coil. Then she connects a thin hose from the artificial kidney to the artery tube in his arm. He bleeds a little to finish the priming and the nurse hooks another hose to his vein tube. That completes the liquid circuit, and she switches on the machine. When all is going well, the doctor leaves...
...tank filled with swimming goldfish looked like any other pet-shop aquarium, but the hamster hopping about inside the tank raised more than a few eyebrows. Sealed in an air-filled chamber, the hamster was staying nicely alive in his underwater environment without the help of lines or pipes leading to the air above the surface...
...liquid blood but lets oxygen in and carbon dioxide out, Robb's membrane was able to filter through its gossamer skin the tiny dissolved bubbles of oxygen-rich air from water without drawing any of the liquid with it. Robb's membrane works best in a tank or stream of running water, where bubbles of oxygen are plentiful to draw on. Then the artificial membrane can operate as a gill does when it filters oxygen into a fish's bloodstream. Indeed, trout breathe best in mountain streams where there is plenty of oxygen in the water...
...cluttered with signs: "Freedom Must Not End Here," pictures of President Kennedy, of Peter Fechter, killed on the wall, and of an unknown refugee from the East who was shot near Warsaw Bridge. On the house walls are, large blown-up photographs of refugees and of a Russian tank suppressing the abortive East German revolution of 1953, all clearly visible in the East...