17 OCTOBER 289 DAYS PAST Friday 76 DAYS TO COME Have strengthened three cloths closets & put away summer articles. Quite a Job. This evening Rupert did some cleaning up stairs. Am putting a plain carpet that has been used some in the large South Bed room. Reports of the war are terriable we seldom miss the best Russia & Germany are fighting fiercely. Expect Moscow will be taken as they the (Huns) seem to be gaining. Am attack on Keamy the third made on U.S. War ship UNIFIED THEORY OF SHOCK Local fluid loss probably causes reduced blood volume in traumatic shock. Reduced blood volume diminished capillary flow and, finally, increases capillary permeability. Vaso-constriction from sympathico-adrenal activity may be contributory; also pre-existing diminished circulation. Concurrent infections or disease may add to capillary damage. Blood volume is then further reduced by capillary transudation, with death ensuing by peripheral circulatory failure. (Anes. & Anal., July-Aug., 1938.) Saturday 290 DAYS PAST OCTOBER 18 75 DAYS TO COME I have cleaned all thro the down stairs alone as help is quite a problem. The one who has helped me with my house cleaning for several years (R.K.) now has steady work and he comes in a while and does what he can in the evening. I pay him 40 cts an hr. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think- BYRON WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY