Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harness of a gadget called the pneumograph. When he switched it on, Jimmy's breathing pattern showed up as two wildly irregular lines on the moving chart. Then Dr. Harrington fitted Jimmy into a chest respirator (which he is experimenting with as a substitute for the iron lung) and a positive-pressure breathing apparatus, both of which, working together, made Jimmy's breathing deeper and more regular...
Among men in every one of 15 countries that keep the best medical records, the death rate from cancer of the lung increased relentlessly in the four years ending with 1952 (the last for which full figures are available), reported the World Health Organization...
...countries, with 1952 death rates per 100,000 from lung cancer for men, and the percentage increase since...
Among women, there were fractional bobbles in the rates from 1949 to 1952, and the overall rates for cancer of the lung (including trachea and bronchi) were markedly lower than in men. But generally the rate of respiratory cancer among women also trended upward...
...Heard, on the first birthday of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, that there are four heart-lung machines and about 90 artificial kidneys now in use in the U.S. to tide patients over crises in surgery or systemic poisoning. President Willem J. Kolff of Cleveland showed a disposable artificial kidney made from beer cans, window screening and sausage casing. Cost: about...