Word: pulmotor
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Suddenly they noticed that young Freiwald's pulse was slowing down. Frantically the two men applied artificial respiration, but to no avail. At 10:04 they called the police for oxygen tanks and a Pulmotor. In six minutes the police arrived. For two hours they worked over the boy, until the county physician pronounced him dead. The osteopaths insisted on continuing resuscitation until finally, a little after 3 o'clock, they gave up. Walter Freiwald had died from too much ether in his lungs and brain...
...operates. To the citizen who does not want his picture in print, the news photographer is Public Pain in the Neck No. 1; to others he is the symbol of opportunity. His body belongs to the city editor, he has no soul, and his life is lived between the pulmotor and Paradise. But without him all news would be colorless and the newspaper just a broad expanse of funereal type...
Immediately after the jump, the bridge and both banks of the river became crowded. A fire engine, with pulmotor apparatus was summoned to the scene. After 20 minutes of grappling of two policemen in a rowboat the body was recovered...
...improbable that our present agricultural structure could survive free competition--the pulmotor must constantly be applied in the form of grants and subsidies, for so many farmers are thumbing their noses at economy by keeping milch cows and using stubbly lands that the others could not supply our needs. The only intelligent capitalist solution has been advanced by Mr. H. L. Mencken; since the farmers are obviously not up to the serious business of feeding us cheaply, they should be made hired labourers, and the agricultural system owned and managed by competing corporations, much as in mining or the manufacture...
...week ago last Friday, the efforts of the rescue squad to resuscitate with a pulmotor a small boy who had been pulled out of the Lechmere Canal some minutes before were stopped by the Chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, Casey. According to the testimony of the fireman who was working on the boy, Casey appeared just at the moment when there was every chance the boy might live, and, without consulting a doctor, ordered the squad to stop wasting their oxygen on a case where the victim was obviously dead...