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Meeting in New Orleans last week, the National Tuberculosis Association, a high-powered money-collecting organization whose publicity has done much to reduce tuberculosis deaths in the U. S. to 70,000 a year, announced that it was giving its Trudeau Medal to Dr. Edward William Archibald, Montreal lung surgeon. He had been recommended for this honor by Dr. Lawrason Brown of Saranac Lake, N. Y., centre for tuberculosis treatment. But to very few of the U. S, anti-tuberculosis enthusiasts in New Orleans last week was able Dr. Archibald more than a name...
...helped to spread the method throughout this country." According to the late Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison's impeccable History of Medicine: "Dr. George Ryerson Fowler (1848-1906) first performed thoracoplasty in 1893." Thoracoplasty consists of removing parts of ribs along the spine, on the side of the diseased lung. The ribs then collapse like slats into the chest cavity, preventing the diseased lung from expanding and thereby exerting itself. This rest enables the lung to confine the invading germs of tuberculosis while the other lung, with no appreciable inconvenience, takes up a double burden for the rest...
Shot with a rifle by his mother during a Thanksgiving drinking bout last autumn (TIME, Dec. 9), Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, contracted pneumonia in his wounded lung, underwent two operations, hovered for a month on Death's verge, then slowly began to recover in a Santa Barbara hospital. Meanwhile his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long-cope, was charged with assault with intent to murder, released pending, appearance in court next week. His father, famed stock-trader, flew to Santa Barbara with his third wife, secured legal custody of his son. Last week Son Jesse walked...
...absence of Editor Ted Scott, vacationing in his native New Zealand, the lively Panama American has been edited by a Chinese newsman named Winston Jay Lung. Acting Editor Lung soon found that his most tiresome duty was supply headlines to run above completely contradictory reports on the Ethiopian War dispatched from Rome and Addis Ababa. Fortnight ago, when a United Press dispatch arrived from the Ethiopian capital describing the death and burial of "15,000 white Italian troops and more than 5,000 native Italian fighters," Acting Editor Lung came to the end of his patience. Entirely discarding headline type...
...Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital Surgeon Charles M. Watson and his surgeon-son, James Rose Watson, swiftly ripped the left side of the butcher boy's chest open. Inside they could see blood pouring from the punctured heart into the pleural cavity wherein the left lung lay deflated...