Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some tiger-snake antivenin, and Dr. Russell got it fast. Even then, massive doses could not immediately halt the venom's attack on Ken's nervous system. His throat was cut open to pass a tube down his windpipe. Soon he was in an iron lung. The venom attacked the blood. Ken had to have five transfusions, plus injections of clotting drugs to control internal bleeding...
After five doctors and a brigade of nurses and other aides had hovered over him continuously for ten days, Ken Earnest could talk understandably and move his eyes slightly, though the lids were still paralyzed. He was spending an hour a day out of the iron lung. This week Dr. Russell gave him a 75% chance of full recovery...
...LUNG DISEASE. In addition to an overall increase reported in the breathing disorder known as pulmonary emphysema, an apparently new form has been described in the last few years, said Manhattan's No-belman Dickinson W. Richards. Not yet given a name of its own, it is marked by an apparent wasting away of tissues, resulting in big holes in the lungs (usually the upper lobes). Victims are generally aged 30 to 40, and most have been heavy smokers, but no direct cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and the disease has been shown. Treatment: surgery to remove...
...Hidebound. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, after Pedro Serafim, 25, fired two bullets into his head, another two into left lung, hit himself over the head with a hatchet, and began working on his throat with a saw, neighbors rushed him to a hospital where doctors pronounced him in good condition...
...only one of many prominent medical authorities (including the Surgeon General of the U.S. and the public health services of Britain and The Netherlands) who now believe that the link between smoking and cancer is definite. Last week the World Health Organization identified cigarettes as a major cause of lung cancer. Many smokers themselves are convinced of the link; in a worldwide poll, 33% of them said they thought smoking was one cause of cancer ?though they kept right on smoking...