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...would not like to measure Something Happened against Faulkner's statement, in Faulkner's terms. You see, Faulkner is speaking romantically; we no longer speak romantically. We know that the only conflict the heart has is whether it keeps beating or not; if the artery gets a clot. We don't have conflicts of the heart, we have conflicts of the head. That's what I mean by his speech being romantic. What he means by conflicts of the heart can now be interpretted as conflicts of the mind, about the emotions. He was talking as if the heart were...
There were times when the Harvard team appeared to have been transformed into a massive blood clot, as its members providentially got in each other's way while the bigger and rougher Brown team tallied points with little opposition...
Deeper Danger. When a thrombus does travel, it is called an embolus. The likelihood of an embolus appearing is negligible when the inflamed vein is near the skin's surface; it is vastly greater, however, if the clot forms in one of the large, deep veins. That is what apparently happened in Nixon's case. For some time after its formation in a vein deep in his left leg, the clot stayed in place. There, it caused the intermittent but painful swelling that bothered Nixon on his trip to the Middle East last June and, more severely, during...
...next move was potentially the most dangerous: if the clot had been as big as the end of a man's thumb, as some are, it could have caused a complete blockage of the great artery through which blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs. The result would have been a dramatic collapse of the patient and perhaps sudden death. Smaller clots usually produce only minor local lung damage...
Nixon's lung clot was evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot...