Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though some filters are working more effectively than others, said Dr. Moore, none is really successful in protecting the smoker against lung cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular disabilities. "Many filters are just not doing the job," he said...
...cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both tobacco companies and smokers seem to think so. In 1952, only 2% of cigarettes manufactured in the U.S. were filtered; last year, when more cigarettes were sold than ever before, 64.7% had tips purportedly capable of straining out dangerous substances...
...pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards of half an hour for complicated stomach or lung operations...
...Viet Nam on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Repose, a 16-year-old Vietnamese girl named Phan Thi Truong, a victim of rheumatic fever damage, rested easily after delicate surgery during which a new portable heart-lung machine was used for the first time...
Presumably the right side of Coe's brain made some, but only a slight, contribution to these functions before his operation. Now, Dr. Smith believes, Coe's faculties are improving as the right hemisphere tries to take over, just as one lung or one kidney compensates for the loss of the other. What Dr. Smith finds most encouraging is that this process has gone so far in a patient so many years beyond childhood. While VA doctors concede that Coe's considerable recovery may be a fluke, they believe that hemispherectomy deserves further investigation; because, for patients...