I was covering for the medicine service at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital 1 weekend in 19 75. I had been there only a few weeks, and the FBI was swarming the building seemingly in the aftermath of a serial killer who had been injecting patients with a paralyzing agent-pavulon. Conditions had quietened, and the

When contemplating our sensations, we tend to focus on external stimuli and how we perceive them: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, vibration, pain and so forth. There are other sensations we perceive but these are internally derived. How our bodies process these central impulses is just as complicated as the means by which we analyze

in 1963 a new game show made its debut on television. Conceived by Monty Hall, who would be the host for the next 23 years, the show offered contestants a choice of 3 doors behind which were randomly arranged 1 very nice prize (such as a new car) while the other 2 concealed not such

When the North American P-51 Mustang turbo prop long range fighter 1st arrived in the European theatre in the latter stages of World War 2, it was good plane. When ground mechanics conceived of marrying it with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, it became a great plane. German pilots were shocked at the speed, endurance,

Researchers at Duke University in the 1960s under the leadership of Dr. Johanner Kylstra began studying the possibility of mammals breathing oxygen enriched liquids. They hoped to find improvements in treating pulmonary diseases as well as allowing deep sea divers to work at deeper depths for longer duration and reduce the likelihood of developing the

In 1904 two English scientists, Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood while experimenting with improving comestibles developed a nutritional additive that appeared to increase the rate of growth in farm animals and would hopefully assist in eliminating world hunger. Initial studies proved so promising they decided to test this substance on newly hatched chickens at their

Ray Kroc, one of the founders of McDonald’s, was giving a speech to a large group when he asked what initially appeared to be a strange question. “What is the business of McDonald’s?” Members of the audience nervously laughed, and initially no one answered. Ray again prompted the audience, and one voice finally gave the

Before 100 years ago children with diabetes did not live long. Diabetics cannot provide their cells with carbohydrate nutrition. Due to a combination of insulin deficiency and inhibited surface membrane insulin receptor ability (see God’s Human Biology-Chapter 19 “Message in a Bottle”) these patients cannot adequately transport glucose into cells. The children, with varying degrees

The United States and the Soviet Union conducted a cold war after World War 2 which reached its zenith in the 1980s. At that time the Soviet Union faced a number of strategic difficulties. Lech Walesa was organizing Polish workers in the Eastern Bloc’s first independent trade union, helping to dismantle Soviet dominance in that

Lewis Wetzel was born in 1763 to a frontier family living in the Ohio River basin. Intermittent warfare persisted between the native Americans and the westward expanding settlers, and that ongoing conflict resulted in Lewis losing his father, sister and brother to Indian raids in 1786–testimony to the ferocity of the engagements. The young man