Word: emphysema
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Researchers at the Medical School have moved closer to establishing a cause-effect correlation between cigarette smoking and emphysema by inducing through tobacco smoke an alteration in the lungs of experimental animals. The alteration meets the definition of emphysema...
...Emphysema results in slow smothering since it destroys the inner walls of lungs and hampers the exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen in the blood...
...work of the Harvard laboratory shows for the first time the relationship of cigarette smoke to emphysema in conditions similar to human cigarette smoking...
DIED. Ruth Elder, 73, aviatrix who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic; of emphysema; in San Francisco. After Elder took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, her plane, The American Girl, splashed down near the Azores, where the pilot and copilot were rescued by a tanker. The failed flight, however, turned into a launch for a lucrative film career...
Nitrous oxide, popularly known as laughing gas, is usually not harmful. But in excessive doses, it slows down the heart, reducing the body's ability to consume oxygen, and is thus especially dangerous to victims of heart attacks and emphysema. Rather than producing sharply different symptoms, it is likely to exaggerate the difficulties that such patients are already suffering-a medical fact cited by Suburban General as one explanation of the delay in discovering the mixup. Whatever its cause, the grim Suburban story is by no means unique. In June jurors awarded a record $7 million in damages...