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Proof that the changes in circulation, blood analysis, and respiration induced by violent exercise are directly connected with length of exercise, training, and lung capacity was revealed yesterday by Dr. L. J. Henderson '98, Professor of Biological Chemistry in Harvard University. Experiments on Clarence de Mar, the famous marathon runner, and other athletes and non-athletes, made by having them alternately run on a treadmill and lic still on a couch, show that the athlete's blood changes less than that of the ordinary man in motion. The acidosis of De Mar's blood remained static while running...
...major infection in George V's right lung, which almost caused his Death (TIME, Dec. 24) was announced last week to be entirely cured. Thereupon preparations were made to speed His Majesty by motor ambulance down to the Sussex seaside, 65 miles from London's fogs...
...later the temperature rose rather abruptly to a higher level and on Dec. 12 there was evidence at the extreme right base of effusion which had commenced between the lung and diaphragm. Drainage by means of a rib resection was performed on the same day under general anaesthesia-gas, oxygen and ether...
...slender, dexterous, rubber gloved hands of Sir Hugh Rigby applied the knife. Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal...
...lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would have approved the language in which last week, the Victorian physicians of George V bulletined the approach to crisis thus: There is a slight extension of the mischief in the lung...