Word: lungs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harr! Harr! That's a lot of Baroni," said the Sage of Age to his consumptive sidekick, Wun Lung Gon, who had been making disparaging comments about the Harlow team. "Why, Harvard Towers way over Princeton. A Crimson victory appears Pearson the books...
...These artificial antibodies-the substances which form in the blood to fight poisons or diseases-were capable of attacking only a few simple chemical poisons (TIME, March 30). The latest news from Caltech is even more incredible: antibodies against bacterial disease, pneumonia III (one of the several forms of lung infection), have now been made synthetically. This achievement of Biochemists Linus Pauling and Dan Campbell is still in the realm of experimental medicine, and flask-prepared solutions will not yet replace the immunizing serums for clinical use now developed in horses and other living animals.* But the significance...
...years Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu has intermittently suffered from an abscessed lung. Until last week 18 operations, including the insertion of three platinum ribs, had been performed on him by a brilliant German surgeon, General Professor Doctor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, whose patients once included the late King George V of England...
Fortnight ago, at a party he gave for Wendell Willkie (TIME, Sept. 28), Foreign Minister Menemencioglu's lung began bothering him again. At that time General Professor Doctor Sauerbruch was as busy as a surgeon could be-with the lacerated Nazi armies on the Russian front. But last week he flew to Ankara in Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's private plane, did his 19th operation on the Menemencioglu lung...
General symptoms are fever (usually 100°-103°), cough, chilliness, headache (often severe). Lung inflammation appears within the first few days but is seldom as extensive as in pneumonia. Sulfa drugs don't help the patient and sometimes increase a patient's misery. Treatment with pneumonia serums has also proved futile...