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Since then, Capitol, Victor and Vanguard have charged into the market. Capitol dubbed its revivals Paperback Classics ($1.98 for mono, $2.98 for stereo). Among the highlights are a rousing Brahms First Symphony with William Steinberg conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony, and a brace of Beethoven piano sonatas, the "Appassionato" and "Waldstein," masterfully played by Pianists John Browning and Rudolf Firkusny respectively...
Every patient's safety margin is different, and at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Dr. Franz U. Steinberg is carrying out experiments that expose chronic congestive-heart-failure patients to most of the physical stresses they may expect to encounter after going home or back to work. The carefully tabulated results are expected to set safe and sensible limits to normal exertion...
...sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
...amount of oxygen the body consumes. Air expelled from the patient's lungs during a work period is collected through the face mask and stored in an orange balloon. Then the balloon is detached and its contents analyzed. Measurement of the amount of unused oxygen tells Dr. Steinberg whether the patient's heart is being forced to work overtime in order to get enough oxygen-deficient blood to the tissues...
Never Before. By combining the information obtained from the gasmeter with pulse checks and with the patient's own reactions, Dr. Steinberg judges just how strenuous and how dangerous any exertion is for any individual. If ironing, for example, is overtaxing, rest breaks every 30 minutes may be prescribed. Or ironing may be ruled out entirely while cooking remains O.K. Once the patient is sent home, follow-up visits are made by hospital staffers to check on such things as anxieties and family tensions, which also affect the heart. A 55-year-old patient, who had been...