Evening star., 1933-12-30
METHOD TO REVIVE
M0R|BUND FOUND
New Hypodermic Reported
Used Successfully in Ere
calling" Sinking Persons.
Hy the Associated Press.


sons suffering from too much alcohol
drowning. electric shock, surgical shock
and asphyxia was announced TO tns
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science today
1t has been used successfully already
10 restore quickly to life and healtf
a man moribund from too much anes-
thetic during an operation. 1t was
developed first for this kind OF recall
of persons who had sunk too deeply
under anesthesia.
The treatment Was described py wal
ter v. MacGilvra. D. D. s., OF tnt
Harvard University Dental School. Inc
treatment has new Greek name
Palinesthesia The hypodermic is IN
travenous injection of minute amounts
OF hydrochloric acid.
He termed the injection recall
acid" and said Investigations are plan
ned to discover whether there may DC
other similar acids which might pos
sess life-reStoring powers perhaps over
more range.
The treatment is still so new thai
the proper doses of hydrochlorlc aclo
have not all been standardized. bu'
in an emergency at worcester NE,
mortal Hospital last July he SAID II
was used for the first time upon man.
No Ill Effects Seen.
The patient. DR.. MacGilvra said. was
'moribund." due to unexpected enecCs
of an anesthetic. The hydrocnlorle
acid was injected at 1o:15 am. Eight
minutes later lips began to tWitch; lr
10 the hands moved; in 40 minutes the
patient was talking coherentiy.
Repeated studies of this patient since
said DR.. MacGilvra, have failed to ols-
close any Ill effects of the acid. IL mas
been tried also upon six human beings
who were not dying, but USED 10 sIuoS
its effectiveness.
In all these cases the recall acio
speeded up respiration Immediately, IN
creased blood pressure and pulse, res
tored lost ref1exes. 1t kept some ol
them awake afterward, which was an
noying.
The after sickness common to opera
tions was cut down, and the patients
were hungry sooner. The research al
Harvard Dental School is thus far con-
fined to rabbits, cats, dogs and monkeys
1t confirms the good effects found on
human beings.
Should we be permitted to speculate
on other possibilities" said DR.. Mac
Gilvra, for life-saving with this idea
in medication, we would suggest tne
sobering effect on the over-indulgent
alcoholic, impending death from drown,
ing. severe electric shock, surgicai
shock, asphyxia, accidental, industrial
or intentional, from asphyxiating gases
and resuscitation of the newborn may
be benefited from its use.
From our limited experience we
believe that palinaesthesia, may be a
life-saving measure on occasions sug :
gested above, when the usual proceed
ures have failed"
Diet for Longer Life.
A new diet route to longer life was
suggested today in discoveries reported
from Cornell University.
Rats in the nutrition laboratory there
have nearly doubled the length OF their
lives by feeding of the young with re-
duced rationS. The experiments were
reported by DR.. c. M. McCay and Miss
Mary F. Crowell.
A suggestion that human beings may
likewise increase the lengths OF their
kind of feeding was made in this
statement:
Modern practice of nutrition applied
in rearing both children and animals
assumes that the diet which produces
the most rapid growth in the young is
the best for inSuring the optimum
health and longevity of the adult
This according to the Cornell scien-
fists proves untrue. Longevity and
maximum growth, they state ARE in
compatible" There is an evident
drawback as far as humans are con-
cerned if such diet works as with rats.
young did not mature into adult size
until their youth" had been prolonged
several times the normal length.
Causes of Fatigue
New discoveries about the causes of
fatigue, showing that an important diff
ference between a strong man and o
weakling apparently is that one has a
greater capacity for intake of oxygen
than the other. were announced by DR..
D. B. Dill of Harvard.
Capacity for intake of oxygen has
been found to vary widely among differ
ent individuals. he told the association.
One mans system may be able 10
supply him with nearly 2 quarts of
while others may receive only half or
third as much. he has found.
In fatigue experiments at the Harvard
fatigue laboratory it was found that a
dog can do more work than a man be-
cause its body has superior mechanism
for transporting oxygen throughout its
system
The fuel supply a man takes in-the
kind of material in his food-alSo
may play a part in limiting the amount
of work he can do in day, it was dis
covered For hard work a large supply
of carbohydrates or sugars is necessary.
Heat Influences Work.
Another thing which governs a man
capacity for work and the speed at
at which the heat generated by his body
can be diSsipated. When the air is full
of moisture-when humidity is high
it is more difficult for the body to lose
heat and breakdown of the circulation
system may take place. Under oppo-
site conditions of extreme dry heat a
circulation breakdown also may take
place because the body loses an exces-
sive amount of salt in the perspiration.
This is because as the dissipation Of
heat becomes more difficult an increaS-
ing proportion of the blood is shifted
from the working muscles to the skin,
and so cannot perform properly the task
Of transporting oxygen through the
body where it is needed
Not more than fifth Of the energy in
food is converted into mechanical
energy. experiments showed. The rest
goes into heat production.
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