The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-10
HAVE YOU EVER HAD THE WIND
 KNOCKED OUT OF YOU?

Sport writers back in the days when James J. Corbett making history (and by the way MT Corbetts The Roar of Inc Crowa IS Di. of excellent biography invented the solar plexus' blow. That is a blow upon the eplSas- trium if you know what mean. Perhaps you call it your stomach. The solar plexus is kind of b-station of the autonomic or sympathet- ic" nervous system, nerve-center for the stomach as we'll as for other digestive organs But this nerve ganglion or plexus lies behind the stomach and hence is not vulnerable 10 blows upon the epigastrum. If an ordinary blow directed to that spot were likely To ais turb the solar pleXus, then that blow ought 10 be barred as a foul no matter whether it is above below the variable level of the belt The truth is that in most real boxing matches the contestants land repeated blows on one an others epigastrium which fushes angrily but that is all the effect such blows ordinarily pro- duce. -
 There has been at least one ring fatality ascribed to a solar plexus blow. Such a death is certainly not due to shock so produced more likely explanation of it is air ambolism. A hard blow upon the apigastrium is comparable with a crushing blow upon an inflated paper sack The sudden compression of the air tears open an outlet somewhere, and the delicate air cells of the lungs are the weakest place. There the air is forced out of the lungs and into the blood vessels, small feeders of the pulmonary vein which carries the oxygenated piood rom the lungs back to the heart.
 Sudden deaths of good swimmers following dives from height and belly -spiashing are due veins and the left auricle of the heart In the necropsy in such cases
  be sufficient to block the circulation. If that vessel happens to supply vital part of the brain the heart wall, the effect of such em- bolism is fatal.
 Writers of murder mysteries must not try to dispose of the potential corpse by injecting a hypodermic dose of air into vein, Tor tnis method doesn't work out well. Recently 1n- Vestigators in Europe tried to Kill steer that way. They found the steer never turned a hair until they had injected several pints or ar. A mere syringeful In a systemic vein or artery IS praboby quite harmless to man. l emphasize this because I'm about caught up with easy dying corpses. These modern murder story story writers kill em off as readily as the old tune romantic fctonsts used to reviVe em with something from flask.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Insanity in Family
 Mother was incurably insane; one brother re- gently sent to hospital for insane; I am 27, in- clincd to be melancholy. Hospital sent us list of questions about memory, school lie, etc. l was slow in school--piodded through the grades gs because I just couldn't grasp things. My mem- Ory is unreliable for name. (M S.)
 Answer-Neither your slowness in school nor your unreliable memory has any significance. These defects occur in many normal persons. am unable to surmise whether the insanity of your mother and brother might be a heritable condition Insanity strikes the best Of families now and then. just as cancer or tuberculosis or apoplexy does.
 Visiting Typhoid Patient
 My wife is in the hospital with typhoid fever. | VlSlt ncr every cScHiHH diiu SAt ah houI VI sMo with her. What is the danger of contagion? L. +. O.
 Answer-Comparatively slight, yet there is danger. You should be immunized anyhow. Likewise the three children at home should be immunized. Ask your doctor about this
 After Taking
 Please tell me what to do for a black eye after have 1t. CT. A. M)
 Answer-Next time, either mind your own business or be a shade quicker in getting your dukes into action. Immediately after getting the sock, ice or cold wet congresses should be kept the eye for an hour or more. After swelling and discoloraton have occurred, alter hating heat and cold will hasten the absorption of the blood and the clearing up of the sinner.