Willard Jenkins, an employe of the Gas Company, was overcome by gas while making some adjustments to a gas pipe under a house on Cherry Street Wednesday noon. The prompt arrival of the fire department with a pulmoter speedily brought him around, so that he was soon able to get to work.
From the front page of The Elizabeth City Independent, July 14, 1922. The photograph shows a 1908 pulmoter and is from The Springfield Fire Journal and Ohio Fire History, online at http://springfieldfirejournal.blogspot.com/2007/04/pulmotor-squad.html. A pulmoter pumped oxygen or air or a combination of the two into and out of the lungs of a person who has stopped breathing because he had drowned, been breathing poisonous gases or been shocked by electricity.
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