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...hour job. The young man woke up at one point and wanted to know what was going on, so they gave him an intravenous anesthetic and a hypodermic. They put a tube in the lung cavity to prevent air accumulation there. The patient rested, with a 50-50 chance...
...than an old fellow and his dog. An old bozo is a nuisance to almost everybody -except his dog. . . . She always slept on a big chair in my room and her solicitous gaze followed me to bed at night and was the first thing to greet me when I woke in the morning. Then when I arose she begged for the special distinction of being...
...French people who bid, fed and clothed the Guests were "wonderfully kind," says Mrs. Guest. On the train that carried them toward the unoccupied zone, Anthony could not remember not to talk English. His mother gave him sedatives to keep him quiet. Once when Anthony woke up, he blurted something in English before he could remember. No one seemed to care...
Every night the human guinea pigs, after eating "test food," went to bed with a battery of scientific apparatus hitched up to their toes, a microphone strapped to their stomachs. They did not have very comfortable nights. Ohio State Physiologist Hugh Boyd McGlade woke them periodically to ask if they were dreaming. He discovered that dreams were heralded by a "rapid rumbling" below the stomach, a twitching of the right foot. Good food to induce dreams, he found, was bananas. When his guinea pigs ate ice cream, fresh tomatoes or canned pineapple, they neither twitched, rumbled nor dreamed...
Flies would be a major menace: swatters could not be made of metal, nor of rubber either. Tire-rationed motorists who had begun to think of buying bicycles woke up one morning to find that bicycles were rationed...