Word: lungful
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...three feet distance from the muzzle of the piece, . . . carrying away by its force the integuments more than the size of the palm of a man's hand; blowing off and fracturing the sixth rib . . . , fracturing the fifth, rupturing the lower portion of the left lobe of the lung and lacerating the stomach by a spicule of the rib that was blown through its coat; landing the charge, wadding, fire in among the fractured ribs and lacerated muscles and integuments and burning the clothing and flesh to a crisp. I was called to him immediately after the accident. Found...
...just another case of intrathoracic cancer when she entered Johns Hopkins Hospital two months ago. By last week, when her parents took her home to Keyser, W. Va., she had become a rare incident in U. S. surgical history -survivor of an operation by which an entire lung had been...
Many a person has had a cancerous lobe of a lung excised. Many a tuberculous patient has had a useless lung collapsed. But only once has a U. S. surgeon cut out an entire lung with success. That was last April, when Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham of Washington University, St. Louis, removed a cancerous lung from a University of Pennsylvania obstetrician. Doris Yost had the good fortune to come under the bold eye of Dr. William Francis Rienhoff Jr., protégé and son-in-law of Johns Hopkins' eminent Urological Surgeon Hugh Hampton Young. Surgeon Rienhoff found...
...Rienhoff took his chance and last week when the child left the hospital her right, uncontaminated lung had already grown bigger than normal. Soon the sole lung will fill her chest, supply all the air she needs...
...aerophor attached to his instrument (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). He pumps it with his foot to shoot auxiliary air up through a hose into his mouth where, by a special facial technique, he shoots it back into the instrument. Tubaman Houston is puny. His aerophor is purely a lung-saving device. William Bell's invention is not for weak tubamen. It does the work of two tubas-a double bass and a baritone. It has two mouthpieces, two sets of tubing (together more than 16 yd. long), weighs 50 Ib. It goes deeper than any tuba has ever gone...