Word: bronchi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed not only sound medical practice but also plain common sense to keep a newborn baby warm-especially if it has difficulty beginning to breathe. In such cases, doctors have a standard treatment: with the baby held head down, they suck fluids out of his nose, mouth, throat and bronchi, and give oxygen. If after five minutes the baby still does not breathe, they may try artificial respiration or give more oxygen. But with the baby kept warm...
...tetracycline to find other elusive cancers. A University of Oklahoma team headed by Dr. John P. Colmore got surprisingly good results from tests on patients with lung cancer. They reasoned that while it is hard to get test fluid containing cancer cells out of the lungs or bronchi, there are likely to be some in a patient's mucus. And since some mucus is swallowed, especially during sleep, there should be cancer cells in a patient's stomach in the morning. In nearly all their cases that later proved to be lung cancer, the tetracycline glow gave...
After that, it is just one damned thing after another. But all his bad news-at first-comes in light voices that in their humor are vintage De Vries: "Here you have the bronchi at the point where they empty into the diatribe," his Old World doctor says by way of telling him he has tuberculosis. He leaves the tuberculosis sanitarium to visit his father, now ensconced in an asylum where the carefree staff has diagnosed him a "Nervous Wreck." Horrified, Don packs his father off to a country rest home where he is amazed to meet his old fianc...
...takes only 2% to 3% of total energy.) He cannot even get rid of carbon dioxide, so he goes into acidosis. The biochemical picture becomes so distorted that neither heart nor arteries can function properly, and neither transfusions nor stimulating hormones take effect. Inflammation develops in the lungs or bronchi or both. Then the effort to cough, which requires a big reserve of muscle energy, makes a final demand that the patient cannot meet. He literally "breathes his last...