Word: venous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Lee's heart kept its steady rhythm; the procaine had done its work. The operation was over in an hour and 35 minutes. The third day the patient sat up in bed; on the fourth, she was walking. By the fifth day her venous blood pressure, almost three times normal before the operation, was within the upper limits of normal. Her abdominal swelling was gone, her color was good, and she joked with visitors...
...Irving S. Wright of New York's Post-Graduate Hospital reported that he had successfully treated more than 300 patients. Dr. Edgar V. Allen of the Mayo Clinic had used the two drugs in nearly 700 attacks of pulmonary embolism and venous thrombosis. Under previous treatments, by normal expectancy, 80 patients would have died. Dr. Allen's score: one death...
Their testes, too, behave as he expected they would, moving backward during the breeding season toward the tail membrane. Dr. Cowles postulates that the venous blood, returning from the air-cooled membranes, keeps their temperature down. Next step will be to prove it with accurate observations. Fellow zoologists cheer him on, but predict that he will have trouble when he tries to take the temperature of a bat's testes while it is flying...