Navy officer's helium oxygen brain boost theory rooted in Pearl Harbor
Rear Admiral MOMsen, soon to retire, promotes inhalation of helium and oxygen to sharpen brain function and stamina in doctors, officials, and workers. He heads Joint Task Force 7 at Pearl Harbor and pioneered the Momsen submarine escape device. He envisions hospital operating rooms and ships using the mix, though no funding is set. Separately, a New York report warns nutmeg powder can intoxicate some people due to myristicene oil, with effects appearing in one to six hours.
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Pearl Harbor
Momsen
Momsen Jung
Navy
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Modern Medicine Magazine
Heat Talk: Weatherman Skirts Hot Weather All Summer
A humorous mosaic of warm weather anecdotes spans cities from St. Louis to Kalamazoo. Reports note officials avoiding the word hot despite 98 to 100 degree days, plus cases involving heat linked incidents and quirky local items.
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Joy Miller
New York
St. Louis
Kalamazoo
Mich
Bear Warnings Cut Injuries in Smokies in 1955
Park officials report a sharp drop in bear related injuries after a public information drive and new warning signs. Supt. E A Hummel credited widespread media cooperation for the decrease from twelve injuries in early travel weeks to only one serious incident and none in the following two months.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Cherokee
Newfound Gap
National Park Service
Park Service
E. A. Hummel
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Hummel
Hummell
Tobacco use among children in East Pakistan tribe
A Southeastern East Pakistan tribe shows widespread tobacco use with nearly all members smoking, and native leaf smoking starts in children as young as four years.
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East Pakistan
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