Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night Perón was arrested, Evita and the union bosses began scheming to free him. The chance came when Perón was brought back to Buenos Aires' military hospital for a lung examination. Next morning, Oct. 17, 1945, some 50,000 trade unionists streamed across the bridge from the packinghouse quarter of Avellaneda. Most of the mob were coatless-a shocking sight in staid Buenos Aires-and some, even worse, were shirtless. They marched to the hospital and to the palace, ominously bellowing...
Writes Burnand, a lung specialist, in Paris' Concours Médical: "We live under the rule of pharmacy . . . The equation
Return to Grand Rapids. The luck of the luckiest man in the world was running out. He had to go to the hospital and have a rib and half of one lung removed. After that he was able to return only occasionally to the Senate, and he had a presentiment that he would never really return to active duty. His wife was dying of cancer. Torn with his own pain, carrying the problems of the world on his bulky shoulders, he ministered to her and nursed her. In June 1950 he buried her, continued alone on interminable trips...
...sample areas, estimated last week that from 1937 to 1947 the number of new cancer cases in the country increased 34%. Of this, only 7% was due to the fact that more people were reaching the older age groups where cancer strikes oftenest. Of all types of malignancy, lung cancer was increasing fastest...
...there was no time to take him to a sterile operating room. The anesthetist promptly slipped a tube through the patient's mouth into the windpipe, started pumping oxygen into it. Dr. Owens grabbed a scalpel and cut open the left chest. He reached in, pushed the left lung aside and grasped the patient's heart. Sixty times a minute he squeezed the heart, "with the pressure applied from the bottom up, like milking a cow backwards." With each squeeze, blood was pumped through the arteries, carrying oxygen to the brain...