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...testament to the animals' innate wisdom, the training always failed. It did, that is, until Dr. Oscar Auerbach, a pathologist at the East Orange, N.J., Veterans Administration Hospital, finally found a way to force the habit. In relentless pursuit of a sure link between lung damage and smoking, Dr. Auerbach turned on man's best friend, specifically the trusting little beagle...
...puffs, they were given a few breaths of fresh air. They were broken in gently on just one filter-tip cigarette for the first few days; after seven months they had worked up to as many as a dozen regular-length nonfilters a day. Beagles were chosen because their lung structure resembles humans', and the twelve-cigarette daily dosage was considered the equivalent of heavy smoking...
Massive Damage. Post-mortems revealed that the lungs of the nonsmokers were entirely healthy. Damage to the smokers' lungs was massive. The lung tissue of the last two to die spontaneously was so completely destroyed that doctors had difficulty evaluating what had happened. In the others, reported Dr. Auerbach, the changes in the lungs were remarkably similar to the effects of emphysema in man. The experiment had not continued long enough to see whether cancer would develop...
...nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under Ch'ien Lung, a ruler of the Manchu dynasty, the service is patterned in rose-colored tobacco leaves, a style designed to appeal to the then-new Western trade. Only 20 years ago, according to Christie's, such a service would only have brought some...
Pendulum Swing. The most remarkable case is that of a soldier who was 28 when he took a bullet in the heart at Bastogne. Two quarts of blood had to be drawn from his punctured chest, and not surprisingly, he has had his share of lung trouble. But after more than 20 years, his ECG is normal, although X rays show the bullet still firmly lodged in the back wall of his left ventricle. There it swings, pendulum fashion, with each heartbeat. Though the veteran sometimes suffers from short ness of breath and dizziness, his main trouble is anxiety...