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When the new TB drug, isoniazid, was first used (TIME, March 3), doctors noticed that some patients seemed to get a tremendous lift: they felt wonderful, out of all proportion to any real improvement in their lung condition. With some, this euphoria was so marked that it was a nuisance. But Dr. Albert E. Krieser saw no reason to expect the same sort of trouble when he began using Pyricidin (a brand of isoniazid) at Anoka State Hospital, Minn. His patients were both tuberculous and mental cases; most of them had shown nothing resembling a spiritual lift in years...
...canny Swiss, advised by Avalanche Expert André Roch, plan to take advantage of this previous British reconnaissance. They will also attack the problem with a new, semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
...years in Shanghai as the Lungyen King. At his Unsurpassed Prosperity Shop at the corner of Canton and Fukien Roads, Chang had long sold the best dragon's-eyes or lungyen nuts (something like lichees) in the city, together with two patent medicines of his own invention: Ginseng Lung-yen Tonic Syrup and another lungyen tonic for menstrual troubles. Through wars, revolutions and even the Japanese occupation, Chang had prospered, planting his profits in Shanghai real estate and running his business on traditionally paternalistic lines. His seven employees had all been with him since their teens, learning the business...
...been given morphine, but he was still sobbing when an intern bent over him. A neat little hole showed where the slug had entered the lower left side of his chest. "Probably hit a lung," the doctor said. An attendant was getting ready to take the boy to surgery when his mother and father, a packinghouse worker, arrived...
Then last summer, a canny Scottish doctor sent the King home from his holidays to be bronchoscoped, and a growth was found in one lung. On operation (TIME, Oct. 8) it proved to be a fast-spreading type of cancer. Despite the strain on the heart of such drastic surgery as removal of a lung, the King seemed to have made a good recovery...