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Subject: Re: "Forgotten Killer," new book from Spearfish Lake Tales, now available for preorder

Author:
Boyd Percy

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Date Posted: 01:59:15 08/26/15 Wed
In reply to: Wes 's message, ""Forgotten Killer," new book from Spearfish Lake Tales, now available for preorder" on 19:37:19 07/19/15 Sun

>The next book from Spearfish Lake Tales, Forgotten
>Killer, is now available for preorder.
>
>While this is a "Tale from Spearfish Lake," it's not
>one of the "Bird" stories involving Jack, Vixen and
>others involved in those stories. Except for a couple
>of short sections set in 2015, it's mostly set in
>1955, and contains no spoilers for upcoming books. At
>least in part, it honors the sixtieth anniversary of
>the release of the Salk polio vaccine. There are
>getting to be fewer and fewer who remember the impact
>of that event, and I thought it ought to be
>memorialized.
>
>Here's the summary:
>
>It's all but forgotten now, but two things scared
>people in the first half of the 1950s more than
>anything else. The atomic bomb was one of them, and
>infantile paralysis - polio - was the other. While
>polio could strike people of any age, it mostly
>targeted children, often crippling them for life, and
>sometimes killing them despite the best possible
>efforts available to stem the disease. When polio came
>to Spearfish Lake in 1955, there were only two choices
>that everyone faced: run and hide, or stand and fight
>against unknown and seemingly impossible odds, doing
>what little they could, however they could, for sake
>of the lives of the town's children.
>
>There are a total of twenty-one chapters.
>
>You can preorder Forgotten Killer for as little
>as $19.99 through the Spearfish Lake Tales Store rel=nofollow target=_blank >rel=nofollow target=_blank
>href="http://www.spearfishlaketales.com/store/40fk.htm"
>>Forgotten Killer page. Preorders will be
>sent sometime on the afternoon of July 26, Eastern
>Daylight Time.
>
>-- Wes

I like the idea of including Basil O'Connor, a real life person, as part of your story. I also like that you included characters that had played relatively minor roles in previous stories. It helps explain why later characters acted the way they did.

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[> Subject: Re: "Forgotten Killer," new book from Spearfish Lake Tales, now available for preorder
Author: Jakub Nar�bski [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:50:08 08/30/15 Sun I have just read chapter 16... who knew that artificial aspiration by mechanical manipulation, instead of mouth-to-mouth, was a thing. Though probably actual finding which is better wasn't done then... or perhaps it is different for assisting people with communicable disease than for e.g. rescuing after drowning.

[> [> Subject: Re: "Forgotten Killer," new book from Spearfish Lake Tales, now available for preorder

Author:
Wes
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Date Posted: 23:22:00 08/30/15 Sun

>I have just read chapter 16... who knew that
>artificial aspiration by mechanical manipulation,
>instead of mouth-to-mouth, was a thing. Though
>probably actual finding which is better wasn't done
>then... or perhaps it is different for assisting
>people with communicable disease than for e.g.
>rescuing after drowning.

It's an old thing, and pretty much discredited today except for special situations like that. I remembered learning it in Boy Scouts, which was a long, long time ago. We had never heard of mouth-to-mouth in those days. I guess it shows how far we've come.

-- Wes

[> [> [> Subject: Re: "Forgotten Killer," new book from Spearfish Lake Tales, now available for preorder

Author:
GaryDan
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Date Posted: 08:09:50 08/31/15 Mon

>>I have just read chapter 16... who knew that
>>artificial aspiration by mechanical manipulation,
>>instead of mouth-to-mouth, was a thing. Though
>>probably actual finding which is better wasn't done
>>then... or perhaps it is different for assisting
>>people with communicable disease than for e.g.
>>rescuing after drowning.
>
>It's an old thing, and pretty much discredited today
>except for special situations like that. I remembered
>learning it in Boy Scouts, which was a long, long time
>ago. We had never heard of mouth-to-mouth in those
>days. I guess it shows how far we've come.
>
>-- Wes

1956 Peter Safar and James Elam invented mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 1957 The United States military adopted the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation method to revive unresponsive victims. 1960 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed.Sep 3, 2014

GaryDan