Word: oxygenating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides this influence, the Johns Hopkins students discovered, vitamin E helps the red blood cells absorb iron from foods. The iron is necessary to the red cells because it helps them carry oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body. Scientists know that the presence of vitamin D in the body aids the bones in absorbing lime. They now begin to think that some vitamin exists to help the body assimilate each mineral essential to existence...
...Davis '06, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and G. P. Baxter '96, to determine the temperature of the ice-point on the absolute scale through measurement of the densities of argon and oxygen at various temperatures and pressures...
...Reduction-powerful pumps compress oxygen, hydrogen or acetylene into tall, slim, thick-walled steel tanks for welding or burning through metal; incandescent bulb makers buy nitrogen and argon-profits...
...each lung expands, it fills its compartment; as it contracts, it leaves a void. Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues. If one lung could cease its transference of oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give one lung such a rest, leaving the other to breathe for both. The surgeon sticks a hollow needle into...
Rest. Dusk came. As lamps were lighted the Emperor received an ounce of liquid food administered through a tube. He was approaching the last stages of pneumonia, and his lungs have always been weak. At his bedside a physician administered oxygen whenever he seemed sinking. The pulse, constant for some time at 126,* became too fast to count. The respiration mounted to 84;? the Emperor's feet swelled markedly...