IN this little book of forty-seven pages Dr. Lauffer, the medical director of the Westing-house Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburg, deals with the subject of artificial respiration as ...

Blowing directly into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing is the oldest method of artificial respiration known to man (and akin to the oldest technique of real respiration: the Lord’s ...

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RECENT improvements in the management of respiratory insufficiency in patients with acute poliomyelitis have considerably reduced mortality in this stage of the disease. As a result, increasing ...