Word: propell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puts it, "simplicity itself." Picking up cow lungs at local slaughterhouses, he scraped off their surfactant, rid it of most of its protein, modified it with the organic compounds, and put the resulting white powder into solution. That way, with a tube and syringe, he could propel it directly into an infant's air passages. To spread it over the lungs, he just moved his tiny patients about until the alveolar cells that make up the lining of the lung were all coated. The infants were immediately placed in a 100% oxygen atmosphere and put on respirators to help...