JOURNEY TO CHICAGO TO SAVE LIFE
# PARALYSIS VICTIM ENCLOSED IN "IRON LUNG" PEIPING, June 2. Enclosed in an "iron lung," Frederick Snite, the son of a Chicago millionaire, who is suffering from infantile paralysis and who must live in an iron respirator, has begun a life or death journey to Chicago, which will cost £ 125,000. During the journey Snite's life depends on the efficiency of a portable petrol engine, which is now operating a giant respirator. The Chinese Government is cooperating by clearing the lines for a special train in which Snite will travel to Shanghai. Snite will then cross to San Francisco in a specially equipped room in the liner President Roosevelt. At San Francisco a special train will carry him to Chicago. Snite will be accompanied by his father, doctors, engineers to operate the respirator, nurses, and diet experts.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22110, 4 June 1937, Page 11
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