Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-28 | Page 10 | Simple Device Keeps Man Alive Two Years

SIMPLE DEVICE KEEPS MAN ALIVE TWO YEARS made Home made Home Machine Enables Victim of Paralysis to Continue Breathing b CHICAGO Ma May 28 AP AP-A AP A year old Englishman n has been kept alive c for two years by a made home-made machine for artificial breathing setting setting setting set set- ting a record for such treatment the Journal of the American Medical Association reported in its current issues The patient was was the victim of a a progressive wasting of the muscles which eventually paralyzed those controlling controlling con coo trolling breathing lIe He was at first kept alive by continuous relays of oC nurses and relatives who used various methods of stimulating respiration I A friend devised a method of ban ban- bandaging bandaging bandaging a football bladder to his chest connecting it through a tube to another another an an- other bladder between two hinged boards which were worked with a lever The bladder wore out in three days I Finally a small apparatus utilizing the city water pressure to compress and relax a small bellows attached to toa a rubber bag bound around the patients patient's pa pat patients tient's chest was constructed The patient is almost paralyzed being being be be- ing able to move only fingers and toes He talks a little and swallows with difficulty but has a good appetite and andis is active mentally i