Medicine: Warm Water, Warm Heart

When police found William Flanagan in a Philadelphia gutter, he was barely conscious and obviously suffering from long exposure to the frosty night air. At Hahnemann Hospital, Intern Edward Brunner was still examining Flanagan, 43, a 6-ft.-3-in. laborer, when the patient's heart stopped. Dr. Brunner slit open Flanagan's chest, and began massaging his heart. (It was the first time that Dr. Brunner. 30, had had to open a chest.) Surgeon Frank Sterba put a tube down the patient's windpipe, hooked it to a mechanical ventilator to take care of his breathing.

Flanagan's off-again-on-again heart stubbornly refused to resume its normal beat, though...

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