Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chances of survival with a new heart are slim, but the odds against a lung transplant are unknown. Only three whole-human -lung transplants are known to have been attempted in medical history, and the longest any of the patients survived was 18 days. Despite the minimal experience and maximal risk, a team of ten doctors and ten assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis...
Although Rizor had the advantage of relative youth, his long-standing heart disease had impaired his lung function, and after the operation he still needed artificial respiration, by way of an oxygen tube cut into his windpipe. Rizor's new heart was doing a fine job of pumping more blood, but the blood was not taking up enough oxygen. Explained Shumway: "This change in circulation has confused his lungs to some extent. The problem is whether there can be a satisfactory adjustment to the new heart. Liver and kidney functions are fine-in other words, all systems...
...taken cigarette smoking a little over 30 years to become the generally accepted habit that it is today. It has taken science about 20 years to correlate, effectively, lung cancer with cigarette smoking. Alcohol, however, has had a rougher time, with Prohibition and Carry Nation standing in the road of progress. The offspring of its success have been thousands of suffering alcoholics. If marijuana is legalized, it will be interesting to see what vicious effects it will have on our already precarious society by the year 2000. Perhaps everyone will be so high that they won't care...
...Even lung disease, including cancer, may be reflected in the hands, said Dr. Silverman. Emphysema, the currently common disease marked by inadequate oxygen intake at the lungs' surface, may produce clubbing of the fingers. The type of cancer that occurs most commonly in long-term male cigarette smokers may eventually lead to acutely painful clubbing of the fingers and equally painful enlargement of the toe joints...
...wonder that it is used in so many successful commercial products. But carbon tet has its seamy side. Inhaled or soaked up through the skin, it can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, stupor, heart irregularities, lung congestion, liver and kidney damage-possibly even death. It is especially dangerous for people who have just had a few drinks...