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...suffocating victim of respiratory poliomyelitis, help in breathing may not be enough. He must be helped to cough as well, in order to clear out the mucus accumulating in his paralyzed lungs. Last week in Houston, a group of polio researchers was told of a machine that both breathes and coughs for its occupant. This "lung" operates by means of a gadget that permits it to explode a sudden spurt of air against the patient's chest. It has passed its first laboratory tests. To perfect his gadget, Columbia University Researcher Alvan L. Barach got $8,300 from...
...destruction of the nerves alone. Despite millions spent in searching for a chemical cure, no way has yet been found to halt the disease, once it has started its march through the body. But new tricks in physiotherapy, orthopedic surgery, such rehabilitation gadgets as Barach's coughing lung, and more & more research, have cut the devastation of polio to the point where at least half of all paralytic cases recover with no discernible aftereffects...
Chang once had a paralytic stroke which left Eng perfectly healthy but inextricably linked for three days to his immobilized brother. In 1874 Chang died of a lung infection. Three hours later, Eng followed...
William D. Rockne, 35, son of Notre Dame's late, famed Football Coach Knute Rockne, was taken to a Wichita, Kans. hospital with bullet wounds in his liver, lung and heart. Police said young Rockne, who spent three years in a mental institution in the '30s, was shot trying to break into the house of a wealthy used-car dealer...
While intended to serve as a substitute for the "iron lung," the respirator will not replace it, Dr. Whittenberg emphasized. The "iron lung," which is the basic instrument used in the treatment of breathing failures in polio cases, was developed several years ago at the School of Public Health by Phillip Drinker, professor of Industrial Hygiene...