Word: lungful
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...from Books. Surgery on dogs was no less essential to the perfection of stomach and intestinal operations (see below). And a surgeon must learn his skill by work on dogs*: he could no more learn to open the human chest and remove a lung by reading a textbook than a Rubinstein could become a pianist without touching a keyboard. Millions of men & women now living would have died, or suffered immeasurably more, if insulin and penicillin had not been tested and retested on animals. With some drugs, each batch must be so tested before it can be sold...
...work was slowed in some of the most advanced research-much of it (for the Atomic Energy Commission) into the effects of radiation. Dr. Harry Goldblatt, who was shot at in 1948 by a fanatic dog-lover, was also hamstrung in his efforts to develop an artificial heart-lung apparatus...
...most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients. But it is still true that nearly half of those it attacks do not recover...
...lung-collapsing operation in which parts of the patient's ribs are cut out, and turned over so that they lie in a concave instead of convex position. They are sewn to the ends from which they were cut, where they cement themselves in place. Worked out by Drs. Richard H. Overholt and Leo J. Kenney of Brookline, Mass., the one-shot operation would take the place of an exhausting and expensive series now sometimes needed to collapse a tuberculous lung...
...minute speech, India's Pandit Nehru dropped into a Lucknow medical laboratory for a lung test, found he was able to inhale 5% more air than normal for a man of his height (5 feet, 6½ inches). Said he: "If I take my breathing exercise for three days I can develop my capacity still more...