IRON-LUNG MAN
EXPERIENCE OF YOUNG AMERICAN (Received March 10, 5.5 p.m.) PEKIN, March 9. “The man in the iron lung,” Frederick Smile, son of a Chicago millionaire, who has been confined in a gigantic automatic respirator at the Rockefeller Hospital for a year, is expected to leave for America soon. He was stricken with infantile paralysis during a world tour and he was unable to breath after five minutes outside the machine. Special nurses and doctors will superwise the complicated arrangements for the voyage.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20673, 11 March 1937, Page 9
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84IRON-LUNG MAN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20673, 11 March 1937, Page 9
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