Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate measure, never before tried in the history of surgery: complete amputation of the cancerous lung in one stage. An incision was made down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed...
...cheaper than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before advising other physicians to lay in a winter's supply of hydroxyethylapocupreine, the cautious investigators, remembering the unqualified praise which greeted sulfanilamide, are waiting for further confirmation of the drug's efficacy...
Backfield Coach Dave Colwell had his first blow of the week when it was learned that Gordon Lyle, promising St. Paul's wingback, would be out for the season. On top of that Graham is out with a bad foot, Waldstein with a cold, and possibly McNicol with an injured knee...
...Merrimen out gained the Bellboys by nearly two or one. Outstanding star on the ground was Bob Russell, as effective a ground-gainer as there is in the league. Graham Riaine, chunky guard, paced the defense...
SURVEY AFTER MUNICH-Graham Hut-ton-Little, Brown ($2.50). Brief, fact-filled political and economic surveys of the countries now caught between the Nazi anvil and the Russian hammer & sickle, by a former editor of the London Economist...