Word: oxygenate
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...week an old man, fighting for breath, was wheeled into Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Five grave doctors hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest efficiency...
...Pittsburgh, asthmatic Eugene Boehm, under an oxygen tent, lit a cigaret, flared up like a match, burned to death...
...unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker was dying of pneumonia last year, Towne climbed into his oxygen tent and revived his partner by threatening to deprive him of screen credit on a forthcoming film...
Several years ago, they had a hunch that the immature hearts and blood vessels of epileptics did not supply enough oxygen to their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet...
...feet he and his navigator, husky, thin-haired Major Mikhail Gordienko, were using oxygen. Doggedly Hero Kokkinaki held his red ship, the Moskva, on its course. Near sundown, with no sight of sky or sea, his radio was frying with static like a pan of pork chops. Hopelessly lost, he turned Moskva back on its course. Finally with little more than two hours' fuel in the tanks, with oxygen running low, he fainted. Gordienko took over...