Althouse: "'Fir tree' removed from man's lung."

April 15, 2009

"'Fir tree' removed from man's lung."

Video.

17 comments:

Meade said...: I once planted lungwort under a Hemlock tree.

Don't know why BBC didn't find that newsworthy.

I did.; 4/15/09, 8:30 PM
Peter V. Bella said...: "Surgeon Vladimir Kamashev said he was astonished, but botanist Olga Baranova was sceptical."

Man there are skeptics everywhere. I thought they were banned in Russia. Or is it here? I am not sure anymore.; 4/15/09, 8:43 PM
Curtiss said...: He was sportin' wood.; 4/15/09, 8:44 PM
Peter Hoh said...: Color me skeptical, too. I don't know how the needles would turn green in the absence of sunlight.

Meade, you'll be happy to know that pulmonaria is hardy up here.; 4/15/09, 8:52 PM
Meade said...: Thanks, peter. And thanks for those websites you linked to, and for all your northern hospitality.; 4/15/09, 8:58 PM
MadisonMan said...: Klemm's Songsparrow farm has a nice raspberry-colored pulmonaria. (I really like their catalog!) We have too much sun for it in my yard, though.; 4/15/09, 9:07 PM
Peter V. Bella said...: "...northern hospitality."

Did Ohio join the South recently? You a reb now Meade? Who'd a thunk. :); 4/15/09, 9:08 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Had that tree been cut in NY and not replaced they would be in violation of the New York State Environmental Protection laws.

I'm sure a judge could have been persuaded that the tree was a danger to the human... but those things take time sometimes ;); 4/15/09, 9:10 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: To cut a tree in NY you have to have permits, to get permits you need a hearing.. to get a hearing you have to submitt an environmental impact study, the impact study needs a design to calculate what will the impacting who and so on..

We had to act your honor.; 4/15/09, 9:20 PM
AST said...: I loved the link beneath the story to a different video, I hope, "Celebration of Transplant Success." Trust Russian doctors to blunder in and mess it all up!

Didn't President Reagan say once that trees pollute the air?; 4/15/09, 9:25 PM
Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) said...: Meade -- one disadvantage of lungwort in your situation is that dogs just adore the stuff. They can (and will) eat it back to a nub.; 4/15/09, 9:49 PM
I'm Full of Soup said...: I await a comment from Trooper re the fur balls he has lived to tell about.; 4/15/09, 9:55 PM
Wince said...: And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the tree that is in your own lung?Matthew 7:3.5; 4/15/09, 10:13 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: Russian media is about as truthful as it's always been...; 4/16/09, 12:01 AM
Methadras said...: In Soviet Russia, Fir tree plants you.; 4/16/09, 4:09 AM
MadisonMan said...: As they conclude in the video, it could be a world FIRst.; 4/16/09, 7:20 AM
rhhardin said...: You get fir balls from licking trees.; 4/16/09, 7:30 AM