Chicago's old Iroquois Memorial Hospital sagged with the most influential politicians of northern Illinois last week. A simple lesson in anatomy and a mechanical treatment for tuberculosis drew them there. Specifically, a scrawny, tuberculous woman held their eyes. More specifically, the inside of her gaunt chest held their interest.
A member of the hospital staff, Dr. Minas Joannides, led the woman to an X-ray machine. Visible on a fluorescent screen were her slanted ribs, her heart behind her breast bone, and shadowy splotches which Dr. Joannides explained were her diseased lungs.
Each lung, the anatomy lesson went on, is contained in a flexible...
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