(10 quotes found)
“One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.”
Anthony Burgess
“RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The prime minister is sedated and on a respirator. One could say his condition is grave.”
Shlomo Mor Yosef
“We were on a respirator for a while - they were bringing the paddles out.”
Skip Prosser
“One person was in the shower. One of the residents was on a respirator and they got him out and to the hospital.”
David Peters
“He is not in a coma. He is on a respirator and he is heavily sedated,”
Marwan Muasher
“I thought he was OK, but he stopped breathing and they had to put him on a respirator. When I was able to see him the next day, he had bandages over his eyes like little sunglasses and you could see his heart beating and every vein through his skin - I was afraid to touch him because I thought he would break.”
Cody Colvin
“All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.”
Albert Speer