Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their good days together were over. Murry was exempt from conscription because of his physical condition, but he got a job at the War Office, and much of the time he and Katherine lived apart. Finally they were able to marry. Then Katherine had her first lung hemorrhage, and their gloomy reality darkened into a nightmare. Murry gave up hope of life, took refuge in "the world of vision...
Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student. En route from Australia last week was a child from whose lung Dr. Jackson is expected to remove a foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago from Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, where Dr. Jackson operates, was the body of a Knoxville, Tenn. girl who had inhaled the brass cap of a lipstick. Knoxville bronchoscopists had failed to remove the obstruction from her left lung. A fatal abscess had developed before Dr. Jackson...
...branch of surgery to form the American Bronchoscopic Society. This week that society, augmented to a membership of about 75 by graduates of Philadelphia's Temple University where Dr. Jackson now teaches, meets in Detroit for exchange of experiences of extracting tacks, pins, false teeth, bones, knickknacks from lung and gullet...
Last week Dr. Jackson and many another bronchoscopist were in Denver for a convention of the American Laryngological (throat), Rhinological (nose) & Otological (ear) Society. There Dr. Samuel Iglauer of Cincinnati told about a rare case of collapse of a lung caused by a blood clot plugging a bronchial tube. Dr. Iglauer, professor of otolaryngology in the University of Cincinnati, slipped a bronchoscope into the lung, extracted the clot, enabled the lung to function again...
...helped to spread the method throughout this country." According to the late Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison's impeccable History of Medicine: "Dr. George Ryerson Fowler (1848-1906) first performed thoracoplasty in 1893." Thoracoplasty consists of removing parts of ribs along the spine, on the side of the diseased lung. The ribs then collapse like slats into the chest cavity, preventing the diseased lung from expanding and thereby exerting itself. This rest enables the lung to confine the invading germs of tuberculosis while the other lung, with no appreciable inconvenience, takes up a double burden for the rest...