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...believe that small amounts of surplus fluid must be drawn out to relieve pressure. that patients should be denied liquids. But Drs. Gross & Ehrlich consider drastic dehydration dangerous, achieve the same result in another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock. The glucose, thicker than body fluids, sucks out fluid from the tissues through osmotic pressure. thus reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During the first few hours after...
Paradoxically, though Lufkin's newsprint sells for only $40 to $50 a ton,* it is harder to make from Southern pine than are more expensive papers. (Texas shortleaf pine yields a newsprint thicker, less pliable than standard newsprint.) Southland's 50,000 tons a year will be no more than a drop in the 3,000,000-ton bucket of the U. S. newsprint market. But if Southland's product becomes generally acceptable, the South's newsprint industry may be due for at least a boomlet...
Meanwhile, inside Russia the threats came thicker & faster. Unlike anything so far seen on either side of World War II, students and workers staged great popular demonstrations in favor of war, demanding stern action against the "Finnish militarists." Moscow troops even got together and handed out statements declaring that there was a "limit to patience" and asking the Government to "bridle the [Finnish] provocateurs of war." Foreign newsmen were allowed to send out reports of huge concentrations of Soviet troops in the Leningrad district which, it was said, were ready for action. The Moscow radio called upon the Finnish people...
Women have another advantage, according to Dr. Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...
Finally he figured out that thin slicing had severed the fibers of the meat as effectively as if they had been ground into "hamburger" and the "tempering" (slow thawing) helped. Also he found that when piled one on another the slices stuck together, made thicker steaks that could be cut with a fork. Canny Butcher Dubil took out a patent on his process...