Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's 147th General Hospital, Franklin Roosevelt made a tour of five wards, talking to the wounded, telling them they would soon be home. He stopped beside the bed of a young soldier suffering from a gangrenous lung condition. A tube was carrying penicillin and a potassium permanganate solution to the soldier's veins. "I hope you'll be feeling better soon," the President said. "Then you'll have a chance to come home. We're waiting for you." But the young soldier was so sick he just lay there staring at the ceiling with...
...wound to whom the doctor said, "What's the matter with you, son?" The boy told him and said he had been shot about noon. "Keep him level," said the doctor, then turned and said, "Apparently he isn't suffering, but it might have gone through his lung...
Silicosis, the lung disease that miners get from prolonged exposure to quartz dust, has been as final for its victims as an amputation...
Three other battalion commanders in our northern force were wounded the first day. One of them, one of the best known figures in the armed forces, was struck by a 13-mm. shell which punctured his lung, and five pieces of artillery shrapnel which tore into his arm and wrist. I saw him in a foxhole just after the doctors had dressed his wounds...
...prevent fatal blood clots from stopping up heart and lung arteries after operations, Boston's Dr. Arthur Wilburn Allen watches the big leg veins where the clots form and, when necessary, opens the veins, draws the clots out by suction before they can move on and do any harm, then ties off the veins. He uses this method on hundreds of cases a year, has greatly reduced deaths from embolism...