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focused on space efforts and the appearance of commercial jet aviation, medical subjects, which formerly concerned only aviation medicine specialists, now have become of considerable interest to all physicians. One example of the degree of interest has been the establishment of the Committee on Aerospace Medicine by the American College of Chest Physicians. Much attention has been given to the ...