Word: lungfuls
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...harness of a gadget called the pneumograph. When he switched it on, Jimmy's breathing pattern showed up as two wildly irregular lines on the moving chart. Then Dr. Harrington fitted Jimmy into a chest respirator (which he is experimenting with as a substitute for the iron lung) and a positive-pressure breathing apparatus, both of which, working together, made Jimmy's breathing deeper and more regular...
Among men in every one of 15 countries that keep the best medical records, the death rate from cancer of the lung increased relentlessly in the four years ending with 1952 (the last for which full figures are available), reported the World Health Organization...
...countries, with 1952 death rates per 100,000 from lung cancer for men, and the percentage increase since...
Among women, there were fractional bobbles in the rates from 1949 to 1952, and the overall rates for cancer of the lung (including trachea and bronchi) were markedly lower than in men. But generally the rate of respiratory cancer among women also trended upward...
...best he could do was to conclude that the increase in lung cancer must be real, and not merely the result of better diagnosis, because, for instance, there is no reason why doctors should diagnose it better in men than in women. And because cancer in other parts of the chest cavity shows a negligible rise in men of the age group now most susceptible to lung cancer, Dr. Pascua concludes that the greater number of aging men cannot be much of a factor. On one point nobody could argue: the increase in lung-cancer deaths was heavily concentrated...