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Episode Title:

 Force Majeure



MLM Code:

#MLM-112


Production Code:

4C12


Season:

1


Original Airdate:

1997-02-07

Episode Summary

An unusual man prepares his bizarre family of cloned daughters for the great apocalyptic disaster of May 5th, 2000. While attempting to investigate a seemingly paranormal chain of events linked to these blonde-haired, blue-eyed girls, Frank Black and the Millennium Group find they have a thorn in their side in Dennis Hoffman, a man who is a self-proclaimed expert on the great planetary alignment that will cause the anticipated disaster.

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Written by Chip Johannessen
Directed by Winrich Kolbe
Edited by George R. Potter

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Learning more about the creepy Iron Lung

 
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An iron lung is a large machine that enables a person to breathe when normal muscle control has been lost or the work of breathing exceeds the person‘ ability. It is a form of medical ventilator. Properly, it is called a negative pressure ventilator.

Persons using the iron lung are placed into the central chamber, a cylindrical steel drum. A door allowing the head and neck to remain free is then closed, forming a sealed, air-tight compartment enclosing the rest of the person‘ body. Pumps that control airflow periodically decrease and increase the air pressure within the chamber, and particularly, on the chest. When the pressure falls below that within the lungs, the lungs expand and air from outside the chamber is sucked in via the person‘ nose and airways to keep the lungs filled; when the pressure rises above that within the lungs, the reverse occurs, and air is expelled. In this manner, the iron lung mimics the physiologic action of breathing: by periodically altering intrathoracic pressure, it causes air to flow in and out of the lungs. The iron lung is a form of non-invasive therapy.

The machine was invented by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, of the Harvard Medical School. It found its most famous use in the mid-1900s when victims of poliomyelitis (more commonly known as polio), stricken with paralysis (including of the diaphragm, the cone shaped muscle at the bottom of the rib-cage whose action controls intrathoracic pressure), became unable to breathe, and were placed in these steel chambers to survive. The first iron lung was used on October 12, 1928 at Children‘ Hospital, Boston, in a child unconscious from respiratory failure; her dramatic recovery, within seconds of being placed within the chamber, did much to popularize the "Drinker Respirator."

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