Word: oxygen
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sell the oilman," says Marcus, "but even more, the oilman's secretary." Still, it is the very special sale that pleases him most. In one working day last week, Marcus came up with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course, "the wife of the Vice President-elect came by and selected her inaugural gown along with a new suit...
...salvagers had found "evidences that some of the men had lived for consider able periods and finally succumbed due to lack of oxygen." The three seamen, names unknown, had been trapped in a storeroom in the forward section of the ship, starboard side. With all power destroyed, they had no way to communicate with the world outside, to let anyone know they were still alive. They had access to fresh water and emergency rations, and they kept alive while the oxygen lasted. They had a calendar, and as each long day passed, bringing no help or hope of help...
...Scottish hospital moaning: "The end is near. The end is near." Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become almost continuous and the lungs are starved for air. Antibiotics, Adrenalin, steroid hormones and oxygen had been given without effect. Finally, the University of Aberdeen's Dr. A. H. C. Sinclair-Gieben took over. His specialty: hypnosis...
...Detroit general practitioner. Powered by a windshield wiper motor, Dr. Lerman's homemade machine-like complicated, bulky hospital models that weigh 75 Ibs. or more, cost from $4,000 to $40,000-is designed to take over the functions of the heart and lungs during heart surgery, oxygenate the blood and maintain constant circulation. It has been tested successfully on dogs. The machine runs on oxygen pressure, uses no electricity, and could be manufactured to sell...
...nurse in charge at Stillman received a call from the Harvard operator, saying that a man was having a heart attack in the Yard in front of Widener Library. The physician on duty left the infirmary at 1:30 p.m. having assembled appropriate emergency equipment, including a portable oxygen supply. He went in his own car to the site as quickly as it was possible for him to do so, but the Rescue Squad from the Cambridge Fire Department, located approximately 100 yards from the scene of the episode, had already taken the man to the Cambridge City Hospital...