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...Jeannette a staid young man is insane from a sudden shock. On his recovery many years later he goes to a dance given by his niece; but the wildness of the younger generation renews the shock and his former malady...
...Henry Kitchell Webster and Edwin Balmer, both popular novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago; Ben Hecht, who aims to shock; and last, but oh! not least, Carl Sandburg...
Victims of electric shock, or drowning, or patients who die under anaesthetics may be brought back to life by the immediate injection of adrenalin with a needle directly into the heart. This has been demonstrated by Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland surgeon, and his nephew, Dr. Dennis R. W. Crile, of Chicago, on patients of their own who had been pronounced dead, they told the Chicago Medical Society and the American Association of Anaesthetists...
...TIME. The effect of the treatment is to contract the blood vessels, especially in the limbs, increase the blood pressure and stimulate the heart. It could not, of course, be used to restore a patient who had died from a long, wasting disease, but in cases of violent shock where death has ensued because of a rush of blood from the heart to the blood vessels, adrenalin is effective...
Three years ago William Z. Foster, notorious radical leader and chief organizer of the steel strike in 1919, predicted that in the near future strikes would be organized with all the scientific preparation of a military campaign, with a trained commissary department, shock troops, labor liberty loans, conscription of strikers' families, and all the material, financial equipment, and propaganda necessary to wage a modern industrial class war. His prediction has had a partial fulfilment in the school for strikers which operated three months prior to the dress and waist makers' strike in New York...