Word: lungfuls
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...When a patient's heart is laid bare for an operation inside it, the surgeon wants the heart to lie relatively still. While a heart-lung machine takes over the patient's circulation and chills his blood, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Morris J. Levy and famed Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei reported to the American College of Surgeons, they shock the heart into fibrillation with low-voltage current. They have left a heart fibrillating for as long as 2¼ hours, and for an average of an hour in 45 cases. At operation...
About a week before she died, a culture inoculated with Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow produced the bacilli of tuberculosis. This was almost certain proof that TB had been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which...
...struggle with paralysis ended one day in 1919 when Renoir was 76. Kept to his room at the end by a lung infection, he worked for several hours on a still-life of anemones, then motioned for someone to take the brush from his stiffened hand. "I think," he said, as he looked at what was to be his last painting, "I am beginning to understand something about...
...Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, was hospitalized Sept. 26 with a lung infection and anemia, but failed to respond to treatment...
Sickly from birth, Andy became ill after only three months of the first grade, and since the debilitating lung ailment persisted, he never went back to school at all. He could scarcely read until he was 14, still has to depend on his wife to extricate him from his lawless spelling. N. C. Wyeth was delighted to have his son at home on the ground that "no great artist ever went to college." Year after year, Andy's talent grew, until the time came when the great illustrator himself was being introduced as "Andrew Wyeth's father." Today...