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Smoking & Cancer Doctors studying the seeming connection between smoking and lung cancer need more facts before they can firmly answer such questions as: Is it just coincidence? Does smoking cause the cancer? If so, how? From a few hundred cases studied in the U.S. and Britain have come suggestive leads, but nothing more. Last week the British Medical Journal reported on a massive study which goes a long way toward answering some of the inquiring physicians' basic questions, and also raises some new ones...
There is a definite relationship between smoking and lung cancer, conclude two statisticians working for Britain's Medical Research Council. Dr. Richard Doll and Professor A. Bradford Hill checked the life histories of 1,465 patients with lung cancer (1,357 men, 108 women), and compared their accounts with those of an equal number of men & women of the same ages who were in the same hospitals but with different ailments. To rule out local variations, they spread their work over five British cities and two rural counties...
...University of Chicago; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Fiesole, Italy. A tireless booster of the League of Nations, he became disillusioned after its failure, decided that nothing short of true world government would work. He regarded the U.N. with pity, called it "a child growing up in an iron lung" because it was not based on the abolition of political boundaries...
Hangover preventives have been peddled since the days of Pliny. His favorites were screech-owl eggs, roasted boar's lung and powdered pumice. Pliny also quoted an Assyrian who had good results with a swallow's beak, ground up with myrrh. (He gave no directions for catching the swallow.) Bitter almonds had a legendary reputation in the Middle Ages, but Sir Thomas (Religio Medici) Browne, checking up in the 17;th century, sadly reported: "That antidote against ebriety . . . hath commonly failed." Later came raw eels, thoughtfully suffocated in wine. Present-day self-treatments include yeast, yoghurt, lime juice...
...assembling supplies of food, rope, sleeping bags, clothing and fuel. They are thrusting their lifeline ever higher to a last outpost from which Lambert and one companion will try the final dash. The Swiss party's big hope for success this time is based on their improved "third lung" breathing equipment. Last May Lambert and his Nepalese guide had to quit because they were forced to halt every few steps and laboriously adjust their oxygen flow. The new apparatus is lighter, will give the climbers a steady oxygen supply, rarely needs adjustment...