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Dry Dive. At Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, where surgery on children's hearts was born under the meticulous scalpel of Dr. Robert E. Gross in 1938, Dr. William F. Bernhard wanted to try the Boerema technique. First he went to Newport to ask the Navy...
Gas Gangrene & Oxygen. Still the four doctors on the case tried to think of something else to do for the stricken farmer. One of them remembered having read last year in the professional journal Surgery about patients infected with gas-gangrene bacilli; oxygen treatment in a compression chamber had apparently...
First problem was to find a compression chamber (usually used for slow decompression of divers and tunnel workers to guard against "the bends"). A construction company in McCook, 30 miles away, agreed to send in one of the 6-ft. by 16-ft., four-ton monsters by trailer truck. It...
Death for Half. Exactly why the compression chamber treatment worked so well, Farmer Douma's doctors are not sure. They know that the penicillin they administered kills tetanus bacilli; oxygen presumably helps to kill them faster. Oxygen's effect on poisons manufactured by the bacilli is not yet...
An underground blast sets up only compression or "P" waves, with very little of the shear and surface ("S") waves that normally accompany a natural underground disturbance. As a result, the seismographs detect only what Leet terms "the lonesome P." an energetic compression wave which lacks the shear and surface...