Henry Heimlich Heimlich's medical assistant in China. The design of the valve allows air and blood to drain from the chest cavity in order to allow a collapsed lung to re-expand. The invention was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. Heimlich first published his views about the maneuver in a June 1974 informal article in "Emergency Medicine" entitled, "Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary". On June 19, 1974, the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" reported that retired restaurant-owner Isaac Piha used the procedure to rescue a choking victim, Irene Bogachus, in Bellevue, Washington. From 1976 to 1985, the
Henry Dewar (physician) Malte-Brun. He wrote also for the "Encyclopædia Britannica", and the "Transactions" of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He married Helen Margaret Spence (1800-1870), an American from Philadelphia, in May 1809. They had six children including James Dewar, Donald William Dewar (1825-1851), Dr Henry Andrew Dewar (1812-1861), Mary Dewar (1810-1869) (who married Dr Gilman Kimball). Henry Dewar (physician) Henry Dewar of Lassodie MD FRSE (1771–1823), originally Henry Frazer or Fraser, was a Scottish minister turned physician, known as a writer. His father was John Frazer, minister of the Associate Church at Auchtermuchty, in Fife, Scotland; his mother was Margaret Erskine. He