Question

someone’s ill? god, in silence with an (oc) internal sound of inner suffix alarm
and blood screaming. it had an eye. the intravenous operator of the
one home called, by wearing a special optical helmet, gone into the soul
at the person whom he was pumping out. what did the eye see? he
did not say. he saw that did not see what the eye saw. the entire
operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one’s yard. the
hand sawed. (go on, anyway, shave the bone down, slash up the
... someone, it such a thing could be brought out in the throb of the
machine. the operator stood smoking a cigarette. the other
one here is no smoking too.
the other man here was operated by an equally imperersonal fellow
in non - removable rubber - brown in overalls. this man pumped all of
the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum.
“can’t do them both ways,” said the operator, standing over
the silent woman. “no one getting the stomach if you don’t clean the
blood. leave that skull to the blood and the blood hits the brain like a
mallet, bang, a couple of thousand times and the brain just gives up.
just quiet.”
explain what these men do for mildred.... what is their function?

Explanation:

These men are medical technicians (from the "pumping" and blood - related actions). They treat Mildred after her suicide attempt by replacing her bad blood with fresh blood and serum, essentially reviving her and stabilizing her condition. Their function is to provide emergency medical care to save her life.

Answer:

These men are medical technicians (or similar emergency medical workers). They treat Mildred (who attempted suicide) by replacing her bad blood with fresh blood and serum to save her life. Their function is to provide emergency medical care to revive and stabilize her.