Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark, N. J. last December a hit-&-run driver bashed into a pedestrian, bursting one of his lungs. So dramatic was the sudden ballooning of the victim's entire body that Dr. John Mahoney Atkinson, young house surgeon of Newark City Hospital, got special permission to publish a description of the phenomenon and how he cured it, in last week's issue of the American Journal of Surgery...
...accident broke five of the pedestrian's ribs, poking one of the ends into his right lung. At every breath he took, air leaked into the cavity of his chest. Shortly after Dr. Atkinson made the man comfortable, "it became apparent that the patient was literally blowing himself up more and more with each respiration. Within two-and-a-half hours of his admission [to the hospital], his appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were...
Five days after the accident the hole in the man's lung closed. No more air escaped into his skin and Dr. Atkinson removed the air-venting needles. "The patient's recovery was slow but uneventful...
...divine comedy of the modern theatre," exulted Brooks Atkinson in the Times...
...yard breast stroke will see Vic Leventritt and Bevt Welfson swimming against Weiss and Atkinson...