Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were particularly glad about the news on Wilms's tumor. Our daughter had lung surgery at Children's Hospital, Boston, for this difficulty when she was 21. She is now nearly twelve, and we will always feel that she owes her life to the wonderful work of Dr. Farber and other dedicated men of research who have spent countless hours in the study of these problems...
...bonanza after another from rich uncles to whom they did not know they were related: nuclear physics, polymer chemistry, rheology (flow of liquids), gas dynamics, cybernetics, electron microscopy. Out of a rich harvest of intelligence from the physical and biological sciences, surgeons have learned how to use heart-lung machines, artificial kidneys, X-ray cameras to take pictures inside the heart-a whole host of machines that could never have been made...
...transplant, and some surgeons object that those organs probably would fail because they would be deprived of their nerve supply. Not so, says Stanford University's Dr. Norman Shumway, whose team has put a dog on the heart-lung machine, removed her heart, stored the heart in cold salt water for seven hours, then put it back. The arteries and great veins were reconnected, but the nerves were not. The mongrel has since had a litter of eight pups, with no evident strain on her nerveless heart...
...body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of small bowel, the colon, rectum, one lung, one kidney, one testicle, one ovary, one breast, the prostate gland...
Once they have a clue to the cause of a disease, medical researchers often make steady progress in the search for a cure. But not in the case of lung cancer. Doctors have long been convinced that cigarette smoking is a major cause, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin reminded a California seminar for science writers, but in the past decade the number of fatal cases of lung cancer has increased alarmingly. Death rates have shot up 73% in men and 18% in women. The death rates from other kinds of cancer have also increased-cancer of the kidney, 19% in males...