FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Artificial Respiration For Three Days. PATIENT IMPROVES. (Received 10 a.m.) EVANSTOX (111.), March 9. Thirty-five doctors and others have been working in shifts of two together for 15 mirtutes to keep Alfred Frick alive for 70 hours by artificial respiration. Frick, who is aged 22, is suffering from paralysis of the diaphragm, following the extraction of two teeth last week. Respiration ceased on Sunday, after which helpers continuously pressed up and down on Frick's lower chest, maintaining breathing. Frick became conscious and was able to speak-a few words of encouragement and thanks. He is unable to eat, and is being nourished by a glucose solution injected in the leg, a quart at a time. He has slept only fifteen minutes since Sunday. The illness is diagnosed as Landry's paralysis, which is very rare. Doctors a e unable to say when a change in his condition may be expected, but the patient'is now better than he was on Sunday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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