THE IRON LUNG
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION DEPLORED
VIEW OF SIR F. MENZIES.
APPLIANCE PASSING THROUGH EVOLUTION.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
• Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. January 6.
Sir Frederick Menzies, the introducer of the iron lung into Britain, in a letter io the “British Medical Journal,” appropos of Lord Nuffield's gift to hospitals throughout the Empire, said: “It is incredible that such advice was given by anybody with practical experience of respirators. It is a thousand pities that the munificent generosity of one of the benefactors of medical science was thus exploited. I hope it is not too late to prevent such a wanton waste of benevolence. The respirators are passing through an evolution in which we are learning continually. It is the height of folly at present to standardise any one type, but perhaps the worst mistake is their general distribution when the majority of the hospitals have not the slightest idea of their proper use.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1939, Page 5
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156THE IRON LUNG Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1939, Page 5
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