Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Leads to Development of Iron Lung...
...electric lung, formally known as the electrophrenic respirator, was perfected by two men in the Physiology Department of the School of Public Health, Dr. James L. Whittenberger and Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff...
...meant to replace the iron lung because it is mainly effective against only one type of polio--bulbar polio. This variety of the disease attacks the bulb at the base of the skull where the nerve center is located. The EPR takes over for the disturbed nerve center and substitutes its own steady breathing impulses for the weak, irregular ones from the brain...
...surgeon performing the operation accidentally touched the phrenic nerve, causing the patient's diaphragm to contract. Sarnoff wondered why this couldn't be done artificially to cause regular breathing and took the idea to Whittenberger who was studying the respiration of polio victims. Together they developed the electric lung...