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Emergency. On Friday, April 20, Floyd Bennett suffering from influenza flew to the assistance of the Bremen crew. When he arrived in Lake Ste. Agnes, Quebec, he had contracted pneumonia...
Sunday, April 22, he was rushed to the Jeffrey Hale hospital, Quebec; word was flashed to New York. The New York World and the North American Newspaper Alliance, sponsors of the flight, immediately telephoned Dr. William H. Delaney, superintendent of the hospital, suggesting a consultation, which was gratefully accepted. Dr. Alvan L. Barach, assistant physician at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, was sent up as consultant, arriving in Quebec with his special apparatus and two tanks of compressed oxygen, Monday, April 23. Bennett's condition was very grave. A large part of the left lung was already involved...
Relief. In Manhattan, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. telephoned Dr. Simon Flexner, director of laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute, asking if something could not be done. Director Flexner telephoned to Quebec. Consultant Barach said: "Well, you might send me some fresh Serum No. I and II. I probably could get it here, but I'd like to have it on hand in case we find it is the proper treatment...
...Tuesday, April 24, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Quebec, carrying twelve bottles of anti-pneumonia serum and three white mice, and accompanied by Thomas B. Applegate, private secretary to Mr. Rockefeller. Immediately on his arrival that evening the white mice were inoculated with Floyd Bennett's sputum. Just before midnight the results of the inoculation were published. The bulletin read: "The type of pneumonia from which Bennett is suffering has been disclosed by the inoculation of mice as type III." A simple statement, but it meant the sera were useless, the flight was in vain, the breaks were...
...From Quebec "Duke" Schiller, Canadian pilot, and Dr. Louis Cuisinier, French ace, left in a Canadian Transcontinental Airways Co. plane for Greenly Island. They returned with Major Fitzmaurice, whom the Irish Free State Government had just promoted from Commandant. The Germans remained behind...