Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benny's mother arrived home to find a town-strong task force deployed across her lawn. Firemen had lowered a hose to Benny and were pumping oxygen into the airless hole. In the eerie shadows cast by searchlights, trucks disgorged tools, timber, volunteers. Rescue workers were feverishly digging a pit ten feet from Benny's shaft and parallel to it. A power shovel clanked in to speed the digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling...
AEROSOL "BOMBS" (pyrethrins): use universal antidote, wash out the stomach, give oxygen, artificial respiration...
PRESTONE (ethylene glycol) : wash stomach with very dilute potassium permanganate, give caffeine as stimulant, oxygen and artificial respiration if needed...
TRIOX (arsenic): wash stomach with two to three quarts of water followed by glass of milk, give sodium sulfate as cathartic, give oxygen and transfusions as needed...
...fellow artists to make the festival "an expression of our love, devotion and gratitude for Casals." Pablo Casals was characteristically less concerned about himself than about the music he would not be able to play. "What a pity," he murmured when he woke from a nap under his oxygen tent. "Such a wonderful orchestra...