Word: lungful
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...flapper costumes, clever subtitles and busy bigness that marks the careers of modern cinema shop girls. But not even by that stratagem did the weak, hackneyed scenario, though it followed artlessly enough the familiar story of the girl who finds her true love but renounces him when she develops lung trouble, gain reality to compensate for dramatic deficiency...
...that "I am not afraid to recover things the Protestants threw away -beauty of service and the confessional," he shows that he does not know the Lutheran service and doctrine. I, as a layman bedridden for six years, with ten ribs removed under local anaesthesia to collapse the right lung and close to the end on several occasions, wish to inform Dr. Fosdick that the confessional has ALWAYS been a part of the LUTHERAN religion, but entirely voluntary. I inclose a clipping from the Lutheran Witness...
Some men were found to have chronic digestive troubles and a few showed signs of lung trouble. A follow-up system is adhered to in the case of men whose abnormalities persist, and such cases are given close and proper treatment...
...Poplar Bluffs, Mo., one Ellis Haiden, tough-palated, raked cockleburs off his mittens with his teeth. One cocklebur, three-fourths of an inch long, skidded along his tongue, down his throat; lodged in his right lung. St. Louis doctors got the bur out with a bronchoscope...
...chest may be considered to be a keg of two compartments (pleural cavities), each containing a lung. As each lung expands, it fills its compartment; as it contracts, it leaves a void. Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues. If one lung could cease its transference of oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give...