Police Department.Officers Donald Carey and Avery A·ver·y , Oswald 1877-1955. American bacteriologist noted for establishing (1944) that DNA is responsible for the transmission of heritable characteristics. Theard of the New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana, Police Department arrived at an apartment complex where they found a 12-year-old boy face down in the bottom of a swimming pool. Officers Carey and Theard entered the water, brought the boy out of the pool, and performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mouth-to-mouth resuscitation n. A technique used to resuscitate a person who has stopped breathing, in which the rescuer presses his or her mouth against that of the victim and, allowing for passive exhalation, forces air into the lungs every few on him, saving his life. Without the quick efforts of Officers Carey and Theard, the young boy would have drowned. |
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