LIFE PROLONGED 12 HOURS
VANCOUVER, 27th June. .' ' A Canadian physician has made -remarkable strides of progress in experiments to cope with the dread disease—infantile paralysis. •■'-..' Dr., I. H. Scheffer, of McGill UniVei 1 -.,, sity,.working with Dr. M. B. Brandy, • of New York, has discovered a method , of carrying on the functions of respira-";' tion and cardiac action in cases bf'jiK. tantile paralysis in which the cardio-res'-" piratory centre in the brain stem is injured by the disease. They have been conducting experiments and have been successful in prolonging life for as long as twelve hours after cessation of respiration and heart action. An elaborate respiratory apparatus performs for' the (] injured respiratory centre. '[''.'. Other experiments designed to reduce" the swelling and inflammation of the spinal cord which occur in infantile paralysis, engaged in by these ■ physiciaflsV have been very promising.- ;.;; ; . ;■'""
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 5
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