Word: emphysema
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Damaging Chain. These two sets of events alone would be enough to explain why thousands of Americans are "lung cripples," suffering from what most U.S. doctors call pulmonary fibrosis and chronic emphysema. But the damaging chain of events runs...
...with smog components. Natural exposure to smog has caused scarring in the lungs of laboratory animals, and inhalation of sulphur-dioxide fumes produces "airways resistance" (inhibited replenishment of the blood's oxygen supply) in both guinea pigs and humans. In London, where the word smog originated, chronic bronchitis-emphysema, an irreversible pulmonary disorder that can cause eventual heart failure, is now the third biggest killer (behind heart disease and cancer) of men over 45, and British doctors attribute its rapid rise to polluted air. Recent samplings of London smog have revealed dangerous concentrations (300 to 400 parts per million...
LUNG DISEASE. In addition to an overall increase reported in the breathing disorder known as pulmonary emphysema, an apparently new form has been described in the last few years, said Manhattan's No-belman Dickinson W. Richards. Not yet given a name of its own, it is marked by an apparent wasting away of tissues, resulting in big holes in the lungs (usually the upper lobes). Victims are generally aged 30 to 40, and most have been heavy smokers, but no direct cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and the disease has been shown. Treatment: surgery to remove...
...Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 33, in a Manhattan hospital after "corrective surgery," presumably aimed at readying her for long-delayed motherhood; Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 59, bedded in Spoleto, Italy with pneumonia aggravated by "chronic emphysema" (overstretched lung tissues) ; Presidential Press Secretary James
...already tied to lung cancer, picked up another morbid relation when Drs. Francis C. Lowell, William Franklin, Alan L. Michelson and Irving W. Schiller, all of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, told a Boston meeting of the American Medical Association that they have discovered an association between smoking and obstructive pulmonary emphysema. In a study of 34 victims of emphysema- a swelling and rupture of the lung's tiny air sacs that can prove disabling or even fatal-the doctors discovered that 100% of the patients smoked, and that they smoked an average of twice as many "pack years" (packs...