Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victim had not told the airline that he had been in a tubercular clinic and under treatment by pneumothorax (collapsed lung). His death was due to a simple law of physics: as atmospheric pressure decreased, the air in his chest cavity expanded to a volume that swiftly caused fatal complications...
Experience has taught Drs. Blalock and Taussig that the best age for the operation is between three and twelve. Under three, arteries are so small they are hard to work with; after twelve, poor circulation may have done permanent brain and lung damage. Before each operation, the surgeons tell the parents that the risks are great. Fathers, they have found, are the timid ones. Mothers usually say to go ahead...
...Mountain. Dr. Zinn got the idea from Father Roger Aull, 61-year-old retired Passionist priest who lives in the mountains near Silver City. Father Aull once had an abscessed lung which got well after chlorine treatments. Father Aull had studied medicine before entering the priesthood; he bought a machine that would make safe, weak chlorine gas from salt water, and gave the treatments to others. In spite of clerical and medical criticism, he has been doing it for some ten years. Most doctors regard a chlorine treatment as hocuspocus: no one has explained how it can possibly act against...
When the Dragon of Yunnan's turn came last week, General Lung was caught with his military pants down: obeying Chiang's orders, a good part of his private army of over 100,000 men was far away, in Indo-China. Chiang ordered Lung to take a face-saving job in Chungking. Lung refused: the Dragon's teeth were not to be pulled so easily. That night rifles cracked in Kunming: next morning a score of bodies lay at the South Gate...
...four days the excitement continued. Soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo...