“MAN IN IRON LUNG”
UNABLE TO BREATHE OUTSIDE IT EFFECT OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Received March 10, 6.32 p.m. PEKING, March 9. “The man in an iron lung,” Mr. Frederick Snite, 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 was unable to breathe five minutes outside the machine. Special nurses and doctors will supervise the complicated arrangements for the voyage
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 7
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