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...climb a flight of stairs without distress, and he complained that his legs kept "going to sleep." His blood pressure had soared to 240/140. Doctors could feel no pulse in his legs. Chief Surgeon Melvin Newman and his assistants at N.J.H. figured that their patient was suffering from a partial obstruction of his descending aorta- scar tissue, perhaps, from his knife wound...
When Dr. Newman's team operated they were startled to find not a partial obstruction but a complete blocklage of the aorta. Scar tissue was there as they had suspected, but it had evidently formed slowly, in successive layers. While it was forming, a dozen minor blood vessels on each side of the chest had had time to enlarge and supply "collateral circulation" to the lower part of the body (see diagram). Over the years, the blood vessels had quadrupled their capacity; they had shunted enough blood around the aorta block to keep Gormley alive...
...onetime U.S. immigrant and University of Chicago economics professor who in 1945 joined the newly formed Polish Communist regime as Ambassador to the U.S. and later to the U.N., in 1956 revolutionized Eastern thinking with a then-heretical plan to revive Poland's floundering economy by decentralization and partial re-introduction of the profit motive; in London, where he had gone for medical treatment...
...ideal situation would be a university with two courses on China--one presenting the American point of view--which let students take their choice," the May Second members said. "Only with the presence of the Chinese point of view would the American point of view be exposed as partial...
Telltale Tap Water. The trouble is that such conventional methods of treatment and purification as filtration, dilution and chlorination are unable to cope with some of today's contaminants. Household detergents pass through modern treatment plants with only partial removal. Certain synthetic chemicals, reports the U.S. Public Health Service, can travel hundreds of miles, go through a treatment plant, and still show up in tap water...