Because San Francisco's Children's Hospital has only one Drinker Respirator, its staff last week was obliged to make a character-testing decision. The Drinker Respirator, invented by Dr. Philip Drinker of the Harvard School of Public Health, is a mechanical aid to breathing. It is a large casket into which the body of a patient with respiratory paralysis can be inserted. His head extends into the open air. A motor creates a vacuum in the respirator causing the chest to expand. Consequently stimulating oxygen and carbon dioxide may be sucked into the patient's lungs....
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