Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...region has produced a crippling kind of lung disease, "T-Y asthma." Hitherto healthy G.I.s are seized late at night with uncontrollable coughing and wheezing, leaving them exhausted and panicked by fears of suffocation. Treatments for ordinary asthma do no good; between nightly bouts, the victims suffer continuously from shortness of breath. Japanese doctors do not recognize this as a unique form of asthma, but this does not mean the Japanese are immune: five native Japanese have come down with it, and the only victim who died was a Nisei from Hawaii. Army medics once thought that evacuation from...
...soft-coal-burning open fireplaces had already poisoned the air sufficiently to help kill Samuel Johnson in 1784. Now, combined with auto exhausts, oil and other chemical fumes, they are killing Britons in droves. London's Epidemiologist Donald D. Reid noted that although British physicians call the resulting lung disease chronic bronchitis, it appears to be essentially the same as American doctors' "pulmonary emphysema," now being reported with increasing frequency. Wherever it occurs, this kind of lung damage might as well be called "the English disease," said Dr. Reid...
...When a patient's heart is laid bare for an operation inside it, the surgeon wants the heart to lie relatively still. While a heart-lung machine takes over the patient's circulation and chills his blood, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Morris J. Levy and famed Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei reported to the American College of Surgeons, they shock the heart into fibrillation with low-voltage current. They have left a heart fibrillating for as long as 2¼ hours, and for an average of an hour in 45 cases. At operation...
When cigarettes were first indicted as a possible villain in producing lung cancer, pipemakers anticipated a wholesale swing to the relatively exonerated pipe. No such thing happened. On the contrary, cigarette sales zoomed on upwards to record heights for five successive years. Over 528 billion cigarettes were turned out in 1961, up 26% from 1950. The sale of pipe tobacco was scarcely checked in its long decline. Only 75 million pounds of pipe tobacco were sold in 1961, compared with about 210 million pounds in 1920, when there were 77 million fewer people...
...eyed manipulators who sell each other "adulterated shark repellent, cut antibiotics, condemned parachutes, stale antivenom, inactive serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats." All pity is mockery ("Yes I know it all. The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm that "gets into your kidneys and grows to an enormous size. Ultimately the kidney is just a thin shell around the worm. Intrepid gourmets esteem the flesh of the worm above all other delicacies...