Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably means to bite but will frequently be too puzzled to do so if the person stands with feet together and hands on chest. That dogs are inclined to attack people who are afraid of them Author Terhune ascribes to a "fear-smell" arising from increased production of adrenalin in the body. Dogs detect, recognize, hate and despise this odor...
...Flex tired muscles and keep them tense for several seconds to refresh them. They become fit for another round of fighting or another spurt of running in a much shorter time than if permitted to relax or if stimulated with a hypodermic injection of adrenalin. The reinvigoration is due, theorized Cornell's Drs. S. A. Guttman, R. G. Horton and Davis Truxton Wilber, to either: 1) the release of a potent chemical, acetylcholine, by nerve ends in the tired muscles, or; 2) a sudden excess of calcium in those muscles...
...shoot photographers on sight; and by a horde of onlookers who shuffled up & down in front of the hospital. While the Senator's political enemies buried Assassin Weiss with honor in a nearby Catholic cemetery next day, the Senator's doctors ordered five successive blood transfusions, adrenalin injections, an oxygen tent. Toward sunset, when his condition became hopeless, it was arranged that the lights would blink in the sickroom to signify the end to friends and kin on the porch below. At 4 a. m. two mornings after he was shot, Huey Long, breathing heavily, was staring wild...
...small, rigid, grey clump of fur & flesh from the refrigerator, invited newshawks to watch the proceedings, began to thaw it slowly in a chamber equipped with heating coils and a fan. When the body was warm and pliant, Dr. Willard gave the monkey a blood transfusion, then injected adrenalin chloride solution into the belly...
...Adrenalin has been used in glaucoma for at least 20 years and in acute elevation of intra ocular pressure is a very helpful drug. The effect of cortin as distinguished from adrenalin is not definitely known at the present time. There is too little evidence to justify an article in a public magazine on it. It at present should be confined entirely to medical publications where the hopes of the public would not be unjustifiably raised and a great deal of emotional stress stirred up and the emotions have a great deal to do with raising intraocular pressure. Anyone...