Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young medical researcher assisting at an operation near the phrenic nerve (which runs from the brain to the diaphragm), got a new idea from watching a well-known reaction. When stimulated, the phrenic nerve makes the diaphragm contract, causing abdominal breathing. Why is it not possible, Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff asked himself, to stimulate the nerve rhythmically, perhaps electrically, to provide artificial respiration for patients whose breathing apparatus has been upset...
Last week, the Harvard School of Public Health, which in 1929 developed the Drinker respirator (iron lung) for victims of spinal polio, announced that a device based on Dr. Sarnoff's theory is now helping to save the lives of victims of bulbar polio...
Developed over the past two years by Public Health School doctors Stanley J. Sarnoff and Dr. James L. Whittenberger, assistant professor of physiology, the new respirator induces artificial breathing by passing an electrical current through the phrenic nerve in the patient's neck...
...Sarnoff first got the idea for the respirator while watching an operation several years ago. In the operating room, the surgeon accidentally pinched the phrenic nerve and Dr. Sarnoff noticed that the diaphragm contracted...
...Chile's President Gonzalez Videla, Italy's Premier de Gasperi and France's Leon Blum. There were Verdi arias and Rooseveltian folksongs (Ballad for FDR, The Face on the Dime), and jokes by Milton Berle (see PEOPLE). Big business was represented by RCA's David Sarnoff, the Armed Forces by General Walter Bedell Smith, Government by FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock and New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "I am very glad and I'm sure my husband would have been very glad that his initials will be the call letters...