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...After a panel of chest surgeons and physicians in Atlantic City, N.J. had reached substantial agreement that there is some connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer, Boston's Dr. Richard Overholt asked whether any of the doctors was so convinced that he was ready to swear off smoking. Not a hand was raised...
...found, 23% occurred during sleep, 29% while at rest, 24% during mild activity, 13% during walking at an ordinary pace, 9% during moderate activity and only 2% during unusual exertion. ¶ Basing his judgment more on "clinical sense" than on statistical proofs, Boston's Dr. Richard H. Overholt advised: "If you have a family history of cancer of any kind, don't smoke, but if you have no family history of cancer, you can probably inhale smoke with less risk." ¶Grafts of arteries from calves and pigs have been successful in four human patients, Washington...
...which parts of the patient's ribs are cut out, and turned over so that they lie in a concave instead of convex position. They are sewn to the ends from which they were cut, where they cement themselves in place. Worked out by Drs. Richard H. Overholt and Leo J. Kenney of Brookline, Mass., the one-shot operation would take the place of an exhausting and expensive series now sometimes needed to collapse a tuberculous lung...
Lung Operations. Most dramatic is the removal of whole lungs (pneumonectomy) or parts of lungs (lobectomy)-a drastic operation which sometimes completely extirpates the disease. This operation was once so hazardous (about 35% mortality) that it was used only in otherwise hopeless cases. But Drs. Richard Overholt and Norman Wilson of Boston told the American Trudeau Society that the technique has now reached a point where the operation "should be considered" early in tuberculosis and not used as a last resort...
Harry O'Hare, Miles Harvard Overholt, Jr., Vincent Leonard di Salvatore Pasciuto, Donald Dunham Perry, James Henry Reynolds, Jr., Joseph Crawford Scott, Thomas Warren Sears, Jr., William Joseph Shea, Morris Victor Shelanski, Robert Breckenridge Sherwood, Harold Jules Sigoloff, Thaxter Parks Spencer, Howard Edwin Upson, Morton Waldstein, Thurston Wood, Ching...