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...following surgery for removal of a portion of his intestines; David Oman McKay, 91, President, Prophet and Seer of 2,000,000 Mormons, in Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' Hospital for the third time in eight months for treatment of a weak heart and congested lung; Actress Patricia Neal, 39, last year's Oscar winner as the housekeeper in Hud, in critical condition at Los Angeles' U.C.L.A. Medical Center after emergency surgery for massive brain hemorrhages...
That he did to a degree rare in any profession. When he died last week of cancer of the lung in Los Angeles, at the age of 45, men of both races mourned. The city council adjourned a session in his memory; the flags at the new Music Center were lowered to half-mast. And perhaps the best tribute of all came from his fans. On the day following his death, Capitol Records was deluged with orders for more than 1,000,000 of his records-the legacy of an uncommon King who would know no successor...
...study done under the guidance of Johns Hopkins' famed Pediatrician Helen B. Taussig, report the Kentucky doctors, showed that no fewer than 327 (out of 7,000) U.S. hospitals claimed in 1961 to have all the facilities-including a heart-lung machine-for doing open-heart surgery. In that year, 37 of the hospitals reported that their equipment had never been used: not a single open-heart operation. In 97 hospitals where there had been operations, the total was fewer than ten; in 117 there had been from ten to 50. In only 56 medical centers were open-heart...
...emphysema, not only do many of the individual alveoli lose their elasticity, so that they do not exchange enough carbon dioxide and oxygen, but much of the lung wall itself loses its stretch. The lungs tend to remain inflated. What the patient is aware of, said Dr. Ebert, is shortness of breath-especially when he begins to exert himself. The condition gets progressively worse until the victim finds himself winded after less and less exertion. Ultimately he is out of breath even when sitting still...
Mouth to Mouth. The Heart-Lung Resuscitator, or HLR, which doctors have dubbed "the Thumper," works on the twin principles that a person whose heart stops must have both his breathing and his circulation restored. Most older methods of resuscitation, such as medieval flagellation or jackknifing the victim over a fence, have been barbarous and useless. Others have been of limited value because they concentrated on only one phase of the problem: breathing. Even the best of these methods, mouth-to-mouth breathing, went out of fashion in the Victorian era because it seemed not quite nice, and it took...