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Heart Specialist Irvine H. Page and Biophysicist Otto Glasser drained more than half of the dogs' blood, kept them in profound shock for two to three hours. Then, in place of the usual transfusion into a vein, they pumped blood into an artery, under pressure. In 70% of the cases, the dogs survived. In one experiment, dogs were bled to the point of death. Twenty out of 23 were revived after they had been clinically "dead" (no heartbeat or breathing) for five minutes...
...writing about Hallowe'en because we think that Hallowe'en, after the vein of humor has been sufficiently worked out, deserves to be taken with a deadly seriousness...
...allows (nine each) before rushing out to Sudbury to register their find. When they did, they carried a first sample of ore that assayed $665 a ton, and an estimate, based on preliminary probing, that their gold-bearing mound was an outcrop of a 3,500-ft.-long vein...
...found the broken end of a rose cane, began to pull it. Out came a rush of blood. The surgeon quickly shoved the stick back. Then he cut open the boy's neck down to the collarbone, found that the cane had gone through the jugular vein...
...Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence River by a Danish collier, whose panicked captain rashly backed away, left the liner with a gaping hole. The Empress sank with 1,024 passengers. Congratulating himself on not having repeated the captain's mistake, Dr. Miller tied off the vein, hauled the carotid artery out of the way and pulled out the stick, which ran from the boy's jaw down through his neck and chest to the fourth...