"IRON LUNG" CURE
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Only Way Paralysis Victim Can Breathe STRICKEN AT PEKING
(By Telegrapk
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(Keceived 11 o.46 a-m.) PEKING. March 10. "The man in the iron lung,'' Frederick Snite, son of a Chicago millionaire, who has been confined in a gigantio automatio respiratOr at the Rockfeller Hospital for a year} ia expected to leave for America soon. He was stricken with infantile paralysis durin@ a world tour and was unable to breathe five minutes outside the machine. Special nurses and doetors will supervise the complicated arrangements for the voyage. The "iron lung'' treatment for respiratory infantile* paralysis was introduced in 1928, when Professor Philip Drinker, of Harvard TJniversity, invented a machine consisting of a chamber in which the patient is placed and when, by rhythmio alternation of vacuum and pressure in the air directly surrounding the paralysed chest simulates the natural movements of breathing. Since its introduction, the "iron lung'* has done yeoman service in treatment of paralysis, gas poisoning and drowning.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 47, 11 March 1937, Page 4
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