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Major Ascroft's chief reason for operating at a base hospital: there the surgeon can use 1) the X-ray (which is not always available in forward zones); 2) a suction apparatus to remove injured brain tissues and debris and an electric cautery to stop bleeding. Neither device is obtainable near a swiftly moving front...
...Each cell of the body contains a minute suction and pressure pump. . . . Before Alfred Lawson explained PENETRABILITY . . . no one seemed to know the cause of capillary action. The foregoing paragraph should clear up that problem...
Gradually, water and air jets cracked the suction. The ship lifted...
Larry Allen, U.S. war correspondent who nearly drowned in the Mediterranean when the British cruiser he was aboard, H.M.S. Galatea, was torpedoed, took his first swimming lessons in Miami. He had sworn to learn to swim 20 feet -"enough to escape the suction" in a sinking. When he met the teacher (see cut), he upped the distance...
Almost too late A.P.'s famed Larry Allen last week decided to learn to swim-"enough at least," said he, "so that I can paddle out of reach of propellers and suction when battleships go down under...