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A Lungful

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by Stephen Drew, AIR staff

Here, for you, are three too-seldom ventilated items from the medical research archives.

Diverted Sniff

"Middle Ear Ventilation by Blowing up a Balloon with the Nose" [article in German], S. Kaus, Laryngorhinootologie, vol. 71, no. 9, September 1992, pp. 485-6.

Something He Ate

"Fire-Eater's Lung," P.E. Brander, E. Taskinen, and B. Stenius-Aarniala, European Respiratory Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, January 1992, pp. 112-4. The authors, who are at Helsinki University, Finland, report:

We describe here two cases of hydrocarbon pneumonitis in fire-eaters, caused by accidental aspiration of petroleum during the performance of fire-eating.

Really Bad Breath

"Punk Rocker's Lung: Pulmonary Fibrosis in a Drug Snorting Fire-Eater," D.R. Buchanan, D. Lamb, and A. Seaton, British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition), vol. 283, no. 6307, Dec. 19, 1981, p. 1661.

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