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Harvard's School of Public Health, where the first iron lung was developed more than 20 years ago, is the birthplace of a new discovery to aid polio victims--the electric lung. By electric impulses, this device causes the diaphragm to contract, thus filling the lungs...
...virus in human tissues, hoping eventually to find a vaccine against the germ. Researchers have discovered ways to immunize mice partially. Other doctors are finding new means to help victims walk again by surgery and exercise, while psychologists are watching the effects on patients of living in an iron lung. The likeliness and control of epidemics are also getting attention. Nearly every phase of polio is being studied at the University...
...electric lung, formally known as the electrophrenic respirator, was perfected by two men in the Physiology Department of the School of Public Health, Dr. James L. Whittenberger and Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff...
Then the medical men brought out their feature attraction, Dr. John F. Connally. Connally pointed out how distorted and exaggerated Farnum's claims were, and he explained the real experiments. He pointed out how animal experimentation contributed to the development of respiratory devices like the iron lung. There was forced laughter among the listeners...
Equipped to carry a five-ton load through a 7-ft.-deep stream, the Eager Beaver does even better. In a grueling Army test, with the driver wearing a portable lung, it went to a depth of eleven feet, cruised without a sputter on the bottom of a clear stream with fish swimming around it (see picture...