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Weaned from the Lung. Last week Kidder was back in the little Montana town of Ronan (pop. 1,251), where he grew up. He had spent 54 days (most of them in an iron lung) in the Troy hospital, then 14 months at the Mary MacArthur Center in Massachusetts, where he was "weaned" from the lung and introduced to a rocking bed. This device, with an adjustable top like a hospital bed, has a motor which makes it rock in teetertotter style. As the bed head rises, the weight of the abdominal organs pulls down the patient's diaphragm...
...Fork-Lift. The Kidders helped to pay for a two-room addition to the Johnson house. Barbara Johnson Kidder had learned at the Mary MacArthur Center how to care for her husband. Last fall, everything was set. The National Foundation shipped out a rocking bed, a wheelchair, an iron lung, a portable respirator and oddments of other equipment. It arranged with the Military Air Transport Service to fly Kidder west. He made the trip in an iron lung (by a roundabout scenic route), with MATS supplying a forklift to heft him in & out of the plane's extra-wide...
...they say, "the association between smoking and carcinoma of the lung is real." But they do not go so far as to say that smoking is the sole cause of the increased death rate, or even that it is a factor in every case. There is still much to be learned about how it works...
...with lung cancer, only half of one percent were nonsmokers; 25% were "heavy smokers" (25 or more cigarettes a day, or the equivalent in pipe tobacco, for ten years or longer). Of the male non-cancer patients, 4½% were non-smokers and only 13½% were heavy smokers. The death rate from lung cancer among non-smokers aged 45-64 was negligible; among heavy smokers it ran from 6% to 10% for the same age span. There was a puzzling contrast in the figures for women: among them, 37% of lung-cancer patients were nonsmokers...
...British researchers found no notable difference between smokers who inhale and those who don't. Pipe smokers seem less likely to get lung cancer than cigarette smokers, and using a filter or holder with cigarettes seems to afford a little protection. Heavy smokers in the Dorset hills suffer less from lung cancer than their city cousins. This, say the researchers, may be because something in cigarette smoke, combined with something in city air, is a more powerful stimulator of lung cancer than either factor alone...