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Contrary to reports published in last evening's Record, Brody is not ailing with an "unknown malady." His collapsed lung is a common ailment. Dr. Rock said for there are six or eight cases of it a year at the infirmary. Neither was it caused, as was implied in last night's report, by Brody's working in a steel mill, since many are stricken who have had no connection with such strenuous work...
...hundred general beds, says Dr. Stubbs frankly, could easily be absorbed by other Philadelphia hospitals. But he fights to keep 45-year-old Frederick Douglass alive, for it is the only hospital in the U. S. where Negro doctors can undertake thoracoplasty (rib surgery for collapsing the lung). Dr. Stubbs chooses his patients carefully, for they are all test cases. Since 1937, when he started thoracoplasty at Frederick Douglass, Dr. Stubbs has operated on 40 patients, almost all of them "poor risks" (some even over 60), has lost only five...
...instruction in what to do when the submarine obstinately refuses to rise from the ocean bed. Harvard groups will have the opportunity to ascend from imaginary ocean depths in a cylindrical tank over fifty feet deep. Oxygen is supplied by a "lung...
...smoke that lies thick and russet-green under the early sun. Because most St. Louis furnaces use Southern Illinois soft coal that burns cheaply, gaseously, smokily, because St. Louis has 160,000 chimneys, because fog rising from Mississippi River lowlands combines with smoke to create harsh, gritty, lung-injuring, bitter-tasting "smog," St. Louis' smoke problem is the worst in the U. S., costs the city and its home owners some $19,000,000 yearly for new wallpaper, laundering, artificial lighting, repainting...
Died. Prince Christopher of Greece, 51, youngest brother of the late King Constantine, uncle of George II of the Hellenes, uncle of the Duchess of Kent, known to the U. S. for his marriage to wealthy Mrs. William B. Leeds; from a lung abscess; in Athens...