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Like Teen-Agers. Previous attempts to reproduce the effects of human smoking in the laboratory had failed because animals could not be taught to inhale. At Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, Dr. William G. Cahan devised an ingenious method of inserting a plastic tube through an opening in a beagle's windpipe and pumping in smoke drawn from cigarettes. The animals were harnessed in an open box and, after a few weeks of gradual conditioning (at first, many coughed and retched like teen-agers with their first drags), showed signs of addiction. They inhaled voluntarily and appeared...
While Cooper handles the day-to-day presentation of Sirhan's defense, Russell E. Parsons will be preparing witnesses and planning appeals, which are his specialty. His most famous was in the 1955 case of People v. Cahan, which involved a bookmaker whose Hollywood apartment was bugged by police. Parsons claimed that law-enforcement agencies had thus electronically crossed Cahan's threshold. His argument successfully established the California law that evidence illegally obtained is inadmissible in a criminal case...
...however, Traynor forthrightly overruled himself in People v. Cahan, as the court imposed the exclusionary rule because "other remedies have completely failed" to stop lawless police action. Six years later, the Supreme Court itself followed Cahan and applied the rule to all American criminal courts (Mapp v. Ohio...
...TONSILS. For adults and for all victims of leukemia or hemophilia, tonsillectomy is a major operation with grave risks. Dr. Cahan has performed several tonsillectomies by freezing; within three weeks after the ten-minute treatment, the tonsils simply wither away...
...UTERUS. In many cases of excessive bleeding from the endometrium (lining of the uterus) caused by tumors, application of ultracold through a larger cannula for two to ten minutes will usually destroy the tumors and thus make a hysterectomy unnecessary, reports Dr. Cahan. He also suggests using cryosurgery instead of "tying off the tubes" to sterilize women who, for medical reasons, must have no more children. The procedure takes two minutes...