Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice is thin, but it is clear and sweet. And, as always, her high-comedy acting is a sheer delight, Yul Brynner, a veteran of "Lute Song," plays the King, and he brings to the part an excellent voice and some fine, convincing acting. Doretta Morrow and Dorothy Sarnoff are both impressive performers and singers, and they are both probably quite beautiful, underneath their Oriental make-up. The rest of the adult east is also sprightly and entertaining...
...electric lung, formally known as the electrophrenic respirator, was perfected by two men in the Physiology Department of the School of Public Health, Dr. James L. Whittenberger and Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff...
...Sarnoff conceived the idea while assisting at an operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital three years ago. The surgeon performing the operation accidentally touched the phrenic nerve, causing the patient's diaphragm to contract. Sarnoff wondered why this couldn't be done artificially to cause regular breathing and took the idea to Whittenberger who was studying the respiration of polio victims. Together they developed the electric lung...
...idea was not original, but Sarnoff and Whittenberger did not know this until a few months ago. Someone then referred them to a book, printed in 1861 in England, which describes the method with crude apparatus...
...doctors had to find the exact spot on the neck where the device could be applied with the greatest success. Sarnoff's wife, also his laboratory assistant, served as a human guinea pig, and the doctors spent hours probing her neck with the electrode before they were successful...