My COVID Diet
Medical History
This week in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first Black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston. Crumpler began her health career working as a nurse from 1852 to 1860 in Massachusetts, and spent much of her career as a physician striving to improve the health of the Black community.
In 1883, she wrote "A Book of Medical Discourses: In Two Parts," in which she focused on instructions for women on how to provide medical care for themselves and their children.
Self-Exam
Q: Can you literally "cough up a lung"?
A: Of course not. A typical adult human lung weighs 2.2 pounds and is a bit longer than 9 inches when breathing normally and 10.5 inches when fully expanded. An adult human trachea or windpipe is approximately 1 inch wide.
So, it's not physically possible for a lung to come flying out of the mouth during a coughing fit, but it is possible for a lung to become displaced -- at least on occasion. In a published case study, British doctors describe a 40-year-old female patient who complained of chest pains. She told doctors that she had asthma and had been coughing especially hard for a few weeks before the pain started.
An X-ray and CT scan revealed that she had coughed so hard that she had herniated her right lung, pushing part of it out through the space between her two lowest ribs.
Fit To Be Tried
There are thousands of exercises, and you've only got one body, but that doesn't mean you can't try them all. Here's an exercise to work out your quads, glutes, hamstring and core muscles that you can do at your desk at work -- or in any study chair that doesn't roll.
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