Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slender, dexterous, rubber gloved hands of Sir Hugh Rigby applied the knife. Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal...
...lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would have approved the language in which last week, the Victorian physicians of George V bulletined the approach to crisis thus: There is a slight extension of the mischief in the lung...
Surgery has yielded "brilliant" results in pulmonary tuberculosis according to Dr. William H. Thearle of Denver. Thoracoplasty, an operation which consists in cutting away part of the ribs, allowing the diseased lung to collapse and be at rest, giving it a chance to heal, and stopping the spread of the disease, has been employed in 148 cases during the last seven years. Forty one per cent were cured, 33% improved...
...gratefully accepted. Dr. Alvan L. Barach, assistant physician at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, was sent up as consultant, arriving in Quebec with his special apparatus and two tanks of compressed oxygen, Monday, April 23. Bennett's condition was very grave. A large part of the left lung was already involved, the right lung was also affected. In Canada, in the U. S., men & women prayed...
...obtainable in Quebec. Horse serum, however, makes many sick people worse. The foreign proteins introduced into the human body may cause chills, sweating, suffocation, fainting: obviously not the best stimulation for a Floyd Bennett with a temperature of 103 degrees; a pulse of 124 beats a minute; a left lung full of pus. This was the Type II serum at Montreal; pure enough but containing horse serum...