Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walker believes his finding has more than industrial significance. He thinks, for example, that it may explain a phenomenon which has long puzzled physiologists: why it is that oxygen can pass from the lung into the blood, but blood cannot enter the lung. Walker's theory: blood vessels in the walls of the lung are porous membranes coated with fatty substances that are not wetted by blood, therefore they block blood but let gases pass freely...
...filed past. These were hard-bellied soldiers, tanned and toughened by training. This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation. A few men were motioned out of line: hernia or hemorrhoids make a man unfit for combat. Sometimes a heart or a lung case turns up. Sometimes a mental case, dormant in training...
Born. To Frederick Bernard Snite Jr., 33, wealthy, handsome "Man in the Iron Lung," and Teresa Larkin Snite, 29: their second child, second daughter; in Chicago. Weight...
...Horror. The most seriously wounded are carried up forward for easiest riding. The nurse may consult with the pilot on special flight instructions (in case of a lung injury, she might ask him to stay below 10,000 feet). At first some Army doctors thought that the flying of lung, brain and abdominal cases would be dangerous. But all types of wounded men have since been carried without harm...
...Pneumonia deaths, though low compared with pre-1941 rates, were 21% higher than during the first quarter of 1942. Atypical or virus pneumonia, a lung infection whose cause is not certainly known, was responsible for many cases...