Word: pleural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found that the air under the skin of the legs, abdomen and chest could be gently massaged into the scrotum and thence out the needle. It was felt that the patient had a valve-like laceration of the lung. Therefore, a large bore needle was inserted into the right pleural space and a rubber tube connected to the butt. The free end of the tube was placed under water. It was found that air bubbled freely from the tube under water during expiration, and ceased during inspiration. Both needles were left in situ and the patient restrained...
Died, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 71, sister of the late President, mother of onetime (1924-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, relict of Manhattan Realtor Douglas Robinson; of pleural pneumonia; in Manhattan. Poetess (The Call of Brotherhood, Out of Nymph), politician, in the 1932 campaign she supported local Republican candidates but not President Hoover because "my own beloved niece is the wife of the Democratic candidate...