Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I and the Spanish Civil War, dead soldiers, without any visible wounds, were found near the sites of heavy explosions. Sometimes bloody fluid trickled from their noses and mouths. Examination of the lungs showed hemorrhages, pleural lesion or collapse. Recently Dr. Zuckerman undertook for the Ministry of Home Security a series of experiments on pressure waves from explosions and the effect on lungs. Using piezoelectric recorders (crystals which convert pressure into electric current), he found that the blast from 125 lb. of high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance...
...found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe sunburn from the reflected glare of ice and snow, but, barring complications, would live for another Sunday on Shuksan...
...Rome. Famed for his roles of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville, diminutive Bonci was long on technique, short on volume, made up in lyrical effect what he lacked in lung power...
Pretty, 23-year-old Mrs. Virginia Mathers Matthews, her legs and chest crippled by infantile paralysis, has been kept alive for the last month in an iron lung. Last week, in Los Angeles County General Hospital, she gave birth to a spanking 6 Ib. 3 oz. boy. Drs. Dan Golenternek and Nathan Spishakoff delivered her child in 13 minutes without drugs, anesthetics or forceps. During this time she was out of the lung, wore an oxygen mask. Mrs. Matthews was the third iron-lung patient in North America to have a baby. Hers is the first case in which both...
Last week, in the American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Gruskin announced some notable results. Chlorophyll treatment had been used in 1,200 cases of infection, ranging from peritonitis to pyorrhea and the common cold. For lung and brain abscesses, abdominal infections like peritonitis, a solution of chlorophyll in salt water was applied directly to the infected surfaces, either in wet dressings or through soft rubber tubes. "Indolent" ulcers and "weeping" skin diseases were treated with a paste of chlorophyll and lanolin. Since chlorophyll is bland and soothing, said Dr. Gruskin, it has a great advantage over many standard antiseptics, which...