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...what he was eating (hospital fare, except for some wheat germ from San Clemente), had to be approved by the patient. His physician, Dr. John Lungren, seemed to delight in being obscure and evasive. After announcing that a blood clot had been discovered in Nixon's right lung, Lungren said that the ex-President's condition was "potentially dangerous but not critical at this time." But he flatly refused to speculate on how long the recuperation would take...
Until early last week, Richard Nixon's troubles with blood clots seemed confined to his sometimes painfully swollen left leg. The announcement that a clot had evidently passed through his heart and lodged in his right lung suggested that his life may indeed have been imperiled by his condition, if only momentarily. But the presence of such obstructions in the bloodstream is far more common than was generally realized only a few years ago and it is now evident that in only relatively few cases are they truly dangerous...
...next move was potentially the most dangerous: if the clot had been as big as the end of a man's thumb, as some are, it could have caused a complete blockage of the great artery through which blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs. The result would have been a dramatic collapse of the patient and perhaps sudden death. Smaller clots usually produce only minor local lung damage...
Nixon's lung clot was evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot...
...disease shortens breath, causes chronic coughing, renders its victims incapable of sustained physical exertion and eventually kills. Less predictably, but in tragic numbers, asbestos produces cancers of the lung, colon or stomach (TIME, Jan. 28). No level of exposure is known to be safe. Children playing around asbestos dumps, wives who wash the work clothes of their asbestos-laborer husbands and people living near asbestos factories have been affected...