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Dr. George Holtzapple, The Breath of Life:
In 1855, George Holtzapple had been practicing medicine less than a year in his native Loganville when he received an urgent message that 16-year-old Federick [sic] Gable was fighting for his life against pneumonia. "Give me breath!" the boy pleaded to Holtzapple.
The young doctor attempted a daring, but primitive experiment to produce the life-saving element oxygen. The experiment was a success, young Gable was saved, and Dr. Holtzapple is credited with possibly the first use of oxygen therapy in the treatment of illness.
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