TRIP IN AEROPLANE
NEW CURE FOR WHOOPING
COUGH
(From The Guardian's London
Correspondent)
LONDON, October 1
Whooping cough cured in 90 minutes! According to reports from Amsterdam this week a new (and beneficial) use has been found for aeroplanes—the banishment of whooping cough in record time.
Ten children have been cured of the complaint by a, 90-minute flight
at 10,000 feet (nearly two miles). Mothers took their children, coughing, to the Schiphol airfield. Within two hours they were back home, healthy and laughing.
Dr Slotboom, X.L.M. (Royal Dutch) physician, said this week: —"If future patients react in the same way as those taken up so far, we have a nice cheap medicine against this irritating disease which makes thousands of households desperate. Mothers won't need to nurse coughing children for twelve or fourteen weeks. They need not fear that whole families will fall ill."
The X.L.M. authorities give full support to the experiment and private fliers are eager to help. Hundreds of parents are every day sending appeals to the air line to take their children for flights,
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 6
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