Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cushing works so hard at raising money that some laymen complain he thinks of nothing else. His capacity for work especially astonishes his doctor, since he suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and migraine headaches, has had operations to remove a cancerous kidney and the prostate gland. He eats lightly ("I have to-I bleed"), sleeps with an oxygen tank beside his bed. "It is the wolf that keeps me on the go," he explains, "particularly the wolf at someone else's door...
...favorite lead (Heartbreak House, The Apple Cart) that he was knighted in 1934, after which he crossed the Atlantic to keep them chuckling on Broadway (30 productions) and in the movie houses as one of Hollywood's Typical Britishers, bald pate, frosty visage, deadpan drollery and all; of emphysema; in Manhattan...
Sudden Catastrophe. Clot-caused obstructions in the smaller arteries of the lungs are even more common. But they are less often recognized because their onset is insidious and they are harder to diagnose. This kind of lung disorder is different from the familiar bronchitis and emphysema, Dr. Goodwin emphasized. In those diseases, the trouble is in the air passages or the air spaces of the lungs themselves. With clotting obstructions, the trouble originates in the blood vessels. But in the long run, it has just as serious effects on breathing...
...Tampa Tribune found a local physician with emphysema, only one serviceable lung, and an unconquerable craving for cigarettes. Between drags, the doctor advised against doing as he did: "Anyone who smokes is a damn fool." The Boston Traveler quoted a dental surgeon to the effect that smoking broils the palate, "just like a piece of meat on a grill." In Detroit, the News front-paged the decision of a mother of 14 children-" 'PACK-A-DAY' MOM SAYS SHE'LL QUIT"-alongside a family portrait showing the mother blithely puffing away. The Chicago Daily News asked Social...
...sharpest risk is lung cancer, from which cigarette smokers have a death rate almost eleven times as high as that for nonsmokers. Smokers' death rates from other diseases are: bronchitis and emphysema, 6.1 times the rate for nonsmokers; cancer of the larynx, 5.4 times as high; ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, 2.8; cancer of the bladder, 1.9; coronary artery disease, 1.7; hypertensive heart disease, 1.5. (Heart and artery diseases combined cause many more premature deaths than does lung cancer...