Word: oxygenate
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...scores of people were complaining of difficulty in breathing. Doctors, hurrying to answer calls, quickly concluded that the fog was lethal mainly to elderly people suffering from asthma or heart trouble. But they were puzzled about its effects. Victims seemed to suffer partial paralysis of the diaphragm. Nothing but oxygen seemed to bring relief...
...afternoon nearby hospitals were jammed with people receiving oxygen treatments, and the Red Cross had set up an emergency station. Firemen moved through streets with portable oxygen bottles. A state of emergency was declared and elderly people were warned to leave the area. But, in 36 hours, hundreds had become ill and 19 people had died...
...celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...
...Motley combined the nebulizer with a "cycling valve"-a sort of artificial breathing apparatus developed for the Air Force. With it he forces air, or oxygen, into the lungs of silicotics. The air passes through the nebulizer, picking up the drug mist. When the lungs are full, the valve goes into reverse and empties the stiffened lungs more thoroughly than the victim's breathing muscles...
...simply inhale as slowly as I possibly can -until I feel that I will smother in the process from lack of oxygen-then exhale in the same manner, very, very slowly. I can do this a couple of times and my hiccups are gone...