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Presumably the right side of Coe's brain made some, but only a slight, contribution to these functions before his operation. Now, Dr. Smith believes, Coe's faculties are improving as the right hemisphere tries to take over, just as one lung or one kidney compensates for the loss of the other. What Dr. Smith finds most encouraging is that this process has gone so far in a patient so many years beyond childhood. While VA doctors concede that Coe's considerable recovery may be a fluke, they believe that hemispherectomy deserves further investigation; because, for patients...
...There was a large laceration of his scalp and injury to his brain," reported Surgeon James C. Drye of Louisville. "His right lung was torn and there was a fair amount of blood in his chest. His spleen was ruptured and bleeding. There were about three quarts of blood in his abdomen. His left leg was almost amputated. His pelvis was fractured. He was not hit by an artillery shell in Viet Nam, as one might think from the extent of his injuries. He was wounded while riding a motorbike on the streets of our community...
...jury was not permitted to assume that brain damage resulted from the repressed birth, and medical testimony was essential. All this makes the plaintiff's burden of proof exceedingly hard to carry when the effect appears long after the cause-for example, in radiation sickness or in lung cancer allegedly caused by cigarettes. Things get really complex when there may be two or more possibly equal causes. Example: A dies from the simultaneous effects of a shooting by B and a stabbing...
...relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal cold. Sister Willie, in a teary epilogue, attributes Alva's off-screen death to "lung affection...
...important, that humans smoke differently. They rarely inhale five times in a row, and they normally do not smoke butts down to less than a quarter of an inch, as the dogs did. Nonetheless, the dead beagles provided the first controlled experimental evidence of the relationship of cigarettes to lung damage...