Word: lungfuls
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...condition don't smoke - they can't afford to." Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford (who did some testimonial commercials last year for Camels) says: "Cigarette smoking is dangerous for your health. I guess we all know that science has proved it to be the major cause of lung cancer." Other anti-cigarette athletes: Track Stars Jim Beatty and Tom Courtney, Tank Stars Buster Crabbe and Patricia McCormick, Fighters Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Floyd Patterson...
They hooked up the tiny 7-lb. 3-oz. child to a heart-lung machine. Then they took the venae cavae, the two great veins that carry used blood back to the heart, cut them away from their normal position leading into the right upper chamber (auricle) and led them over to the left side. As near simultaneously as possible, the team of surgeons took the pulmonary veins, which carry oxygenated blood from lungs to heart, and severed them from the left auricle. They stitched the venae cavae to the places where the pulmonary veins had entered the left auricle...
Complete Reversal. When the surgeons' clamps were removed and the heart-lung machine was shut off, the baby's heart resumed its job of pumping blood to her body. But now she had a more total transposition than the one that nature had inflicted upon her. All her used, deoxygenated blood flowed through the left side of her heart, and her reoxygenated blood through the right-the exact reverse of normal, but almost as effective...
...first step, the Health Services will issue a pamphlet this month emphasizing that long-time cigarette smokers are more susceptible to lung cancer and chronic bronchitis than non-smokers...
...liver had been replaced by one taken from a dead man. A boy of twelve was living a normal life in his Pueblo, Colo., home with his mother's spleen inside him, while his mother went about her chores with no spleen at all. A couple of lung transplants have been tried, and though the patients died, there will soon be others...