Capsules

P:After a panel of chest surgeons and physicians in Atlantic City, N.J. had reached substantial agreement that there is some connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer, Boston's Dr. Richard Overholt asked whether any of the doctors was so convinced that he was ready to swear off smoking. Not a hand was raised.

P:When Wayne Sturdevant, 32, was shot during an argument, the bullet lodged in a heart cavity. As a surgeon at Seattle's Swedish Hospital was removing it, the bullet slipped from his forceps and traveled down a large vein, against the blood flow, into the abdomen. So the surgeons sewed up the heart and chest, and within 20 minutes, opened the abdomen. This time they got the bullet. Sturdevant was making a good recovery last week from the shooting and both operations.

P:As the triple-threat leaves of poison ivy sprouted furiously over most of the U.S., Ayerst Laboratories began distributing a protective cream, Kerodex, which has saved gangs of railroad section workers from the itch. For both prevention and treatment of ivy poisoning, the National Lead Co. was boosting Zotox, in which an oxide of the wonder metal zirconium neutralizes the irritating factor urushiol.

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