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...would like to see women-history's most effective medium of communication -turn their talents to saving their husbands from early death by lung cancer. . . . They should insist that men with persistent coughs go see the doctor. Because most men are notoriously insensitive to seemingly minor symptoms, the job will not be easy. In most cases it may entail some nagging, but I believe most women will agree that it is better to have a live and healthy husband, however harassed he may be, than to allow him to go complacently to an untimely grave...
...souper of this year's smog season rolled over London, 6,000 doctor-members of the London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster," urged fellow townsmen to protect their lungs with sixpence worth of gauze folded into a six-layer mask and tied over the mouth and nose. The meshes of the mask, said the committee, would arrest most of the soot, while moisture from the breath, condensed on the mask, would prevent passage of some of the chemicals that...
Added Market Specialist Phil Hedrick of the North Carolina agriculture department: "It's defensive advertising that's doing it. A medical authority says, for instance, that there is a high incidence of lung cancer among heavy smokers, and immediately the tobacco companies rush to the defense. Instead of saying that cigarettes relax you, comfort you and soothe the nerves, they deny that their brand will give you a disease . . . TV has made it much worse. They blow smoke in a test tube and all that sort of stuff. It looks as if they're putting tobacco...
...After seven patient years of failure, Britain's Dr. Christopher H. Andrewes and his staff of common-cold experts reported that they had succeeded in growing cold virus outside the human body. Using human lung tissue, Andrewes & Co. cultivated the virus in incubators, proved it was still potent by infecting volunteers. Now the researchers see their way clear for close studies of the cold bug's growth and susceptibility to drugs. Their hope: an eventual cold-killing vaccine...
Frog breathing increases the time which patients can spend outside the iron lung. Before learning the technique, one group of eleven patients at Rancho Los Amigos was able to remain outside their respirators for an average of only 4½ minutes. After mastering it, their average time jumped to 4½ hours. Frog breathing gives patients a big psychological boost, also enables them to cough, ending a small but maddening frustration that besets the paralyzed who feel the throat irritation but cannot relieve it, and it allows them to speak audibly...