PARALYSIS VICTIM SAVED
IRON LUNG PUMPED | BY HAND j HELP GIVEN BY CRIPPLED BOYS LONDON, November 7. How crippled boys helped to save the life of an infantile paralysis victim when the mechanism operating an iron iung failed was related by Sir Henry Gauvain, medical superintendent of the Morland Clinics, Alton. Eric Marchant, aged nine, was admitted to hospital at Alton three weeks ago with his leg and arm muscles paralysed and the paralysis | spreading. He had been several hours unconscious when the iron dung arrived from London. Then the voltage was found unsuitable for (the pump and relays of people [worked the pump by hand. 1 “The child’s father helped and we [pumped by hand for nine hours until engineers got the motor - working.” said Sir Henry. “Then the gears went wrong and hand-pump-ing was resumed for another 151 hours. Doctors, porters, and cripples aged from 14 to 16 participated. Later we received a new machine and the boy is now improving enormously.” :
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22245, 9 November 1937, Page 11
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