Concentrations of 7 % to 10 % cause dizziness, headache, visual and hearing dysfunction, and
unconsciousness within a few minutes to an hour.
The Coroner - on the advice of pathologists - believed that victims suffered traumatic asphyxia leading to
unconsciousness within seconds and death within a few minutes.
Not exact matches
«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle
within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek
unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.
Even
within human experience, we can note wide differences between moments of intense alertness and moments of drowsy semiconsciousness shading off into
unconsciousness.
The transition from grayout to
unconsciousness resembles floating peacefully
within a dark tunnel, which is much like some of the defining characteristics of a near - death experience.