LIFE BREATH
BY FALSE LUNG NURSE’S ORDEAL. CHICAGO, September 28. Frances M'Gahan, a young nurse, who is unable to breathe, owing to contraction of the chest muscles, duo originally to infantile paralysis, and who has been kejyfc alive for twelve days by a mechanical lung, the latest device of science, was informed to-day by her physicians that barring complications, she will fully recover. She had eight hours of normal sleep last night, and this morning ate a hearty, normal breakfast. Miss M'Gahan lies in an aluminium cabinet, her head only being outside, the vacuum in the cabinet being preserved by a tight rubber band round the neck. She converses freely with her doctors and nurses. Dials on tho cabinet indicate the pressure being applied to her chest. For lOmin daily sho is being taken out of tho cabinet to give her a chance to practice breathing, and when any difficulty arises she is returned to the cabinet. Only two of these devices are being used in tho United. States, the other being in San Francisco.
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Evening Star, Issue 20612, 11 October 1930, Page 15
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175LIFE BREATH Evening Star, Issue 20612, 11 October 1930, Page 15
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