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...first iron lung was also conceived and invented by a man in the School of Public Health, Phillip Drinker, head of the Department of Industrial Hygiene. Over 20 years ago, Drinker was watching a colleague, Louis A. Shaw, perform experiments to measure the amount of air a cat held in its lungs after a normal breath...
...thought Drinker, can't we reverse the process? First, push air into the box to press on the lungs, making the cat exhale, and then draw air out of the box, causing air to rush into the lungs and fill the vacuum. The two men got to work at once and soon were making the cat breath mechanically by pumping air into...
...serve as a substitute for the "iron lung," the respirator will not replace it, Dr. Whittenberg emphasized. The "iron lung," which is the basic instrument used in the treatment of breathing failures in polio cases, was developed several years ago at the School of Public Health by Phillip Drinker, professor of Industrial Hygiene...
...Captain Sam Grant was a fine, thorough book, the best job ever done on Grant's early years. Another big job done with care and spirit was Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss on solid John Adams and the American Revolution, but it was the first biography to make him seem wholly human. Irving Brant finished the third volume of his massive James Madison, and William Harlan Hale wrote a fresh, readable Horace Greeley...
...Missouri judge, breezy, twice-married Tom Hennings zipped through Cornell and Washington University Law School (where he passed a three-year course in two years). He was a Congressman for six years in the late '3as, distinguishing himself chiefly as a two-fisted drinker, is now a teetotaler. How did he happen to be the only Democrat to unseat a Republican Senator? One explanation: many Missouri farmers believed that in voting for Hennings they were slapping Harry Truman...