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...panic associated with it has gone, and after 30 more years medical science may have reduced it to the status of an interesting rarity. So says famed Cardiologist Arthur M. Master of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital in the A.M.A. Journal. Angina pectoris (literally, suffocating pain in the chest) is caused by sclerosis of the coronary arteries in a clutching, chronic form-less dramatic than the violent seizure of the heart attack, when a coronary artery actually shuts down...
...room. Now, with only a cue, he was able to assure her that she would feel no pain. To make doubly sure, he gave her instructions to make her lose all sensation in her right hand. Then he told her to put this hand to her chest so that this area too would lose sensation. Satisfied that she was in a deep enough hypnotic state, Dr. Kroger told the surgeon: "Your patient is ready." For ten minutes, as the surgeon removed the growth and sewed up the wound, Dr. Kroger kept on intoning reassurance to the patient and inducing...
...trouble with the iron lung and its portable little brother, the chest respirator, is that they make the patient breathe in a fixed rhythm and give him just the same amount of air each time. Now researchers at Nashville's Vanderbilt University report an electronic device which can be hooked up to either type of respirator and lets the patient breathe more naturally-when his own nervous system dictates, and as deeply. It works by electrodes taped to the chest: they pick up electrical nerve impulses intended for the paralyzed breathing muscles, divert them to an electrical amplifier which...
Beyond City Limits. Between the hard-won dollar from the woman in Newark and the resounding windfall in Detroit, the story was the same: some 2,000 communities in the U.S. last week were winding up their annual Community Chest and United Fund campaigns, which this year will top 1955's record of $340 million. The results attest to the resounding success of large-scale, organized giving, in which a single-fund appeal raises more money than was once raised for charity by a score of individual appeals.* Moreover, this new organizational know-how has brought millions of Americans...
...Only 16 cities with a population of 25,000 or more still spurn the single, annual, city-wide Community Chest or United Fund type of appeal. Chief among them: New York, with five major federated charity drives each year...