The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1930, Page 6

ner SRE AVN EAA mutate vcnamicccitcnavceaeccvce anette Science's eee a Som ng . er ‘ ev R New Way to Save Life | When Breathing Fails How Albert Frick was kept alive day after day . .. by relays of friends who stood at his side and pumped his lungs in cadence. In the end he died, but if the Drinker apparatus had~been invented . his life might have been saved. ... This picture was posed by a group of Frick's friends . .. showing how they pumped his lungs despite his partially-erect position. The Drinker -atus is simple to operate... . The patient {i mattress, and is slid into the tank asa desk drawer sis sla to opera, = «Tike Peters to the dt, the decree locked . . . and pumps begin to supply the breathing force of the paralyzed patient. By ELEANOR EARLY ARRETT HOYT, 22 years old, a senior at - and was discharged vias the hospital. For’ four Hi d, awoke morni little feverish. He weeks he had lived tantly in the respirator. BEZeses Res eros a li ne nly 4 ‘After that he spent an average of two hours ‘a‘day Hoyt was manager o Harvard hockey. in ‘the tank. i = patient lies co lpn tis mE Corona t ber ‘of clubs, and of the It had taken th ths to strength thi les ° = 7 _ within is alternately most opal Sed in he the. He oan mate Kidded him 20 that they could function without pasar How one of the terrors of dread aaah ee Pent Pubes! = sir about being love-sick, and went off to class. ay Curing the incostal paralysis was the big thing. - ei a pe air rushes into the I ‘When end Two days later young Hoyt noticed a weakness in his Now the arms and legs are getting better. Eventually, the infantile ral 1S has been : gure js raised, the air bape Leu lft arm and lee. The next day he had dificalty in brea doctors say, Hoyt wil be able to walk without braces or paralys' PP eee pm aly opened pene ing. weakness of his arms and legs increased, ai crutches. i A the ‘thin the bs alter- young man became thoroughly frightened. - The Drinker apparatus is the most effective means of d b h D o ie and placed He sent for a physician, but by the time the doctor ar- ving life when there is respi breathing) fail conquered by the new Drinker ty nde rote 2 duane expiration. rived’ oor Hoyt could: hardly breathe. eat ae. sang ie wn Gate her’ i eaing.on cath o> q ¥ ‘The positive . pressure inducing expiration. On the fifth day he was paralyzed ‘from the neck down. wonderful. The only one who discounts its miracle-working Except for a few feeble movements of the hands, he liter- powers ‘is ‘Philip Drinker, the inventor. ally could not move a muscle. They rushed him: to the’ = apparatus which restores life. "gr; Sastet ahs A me: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. But before he reached there 6¢],T’S non-transportable,” laments Drinker. “Not much : ° j fave: pregmmte <<a Whil bs his breathing ‘hed become very dificult. His breath was use in ‘an emergency. Like the mountain apd. Moham- when resuscitators and other bay pleco chest. and pein the coming in short gasps, and the muscles. in his neck were med. ‘The mountain wouldn't go to Mohammed. So air to be expelled. Thus a movement of the es, si ie iron ne OSes Mined fad wa ot to the tocuatasn, My a can’t a rti fi ° | f t ° chest is induced which counterfeits the natural WwW. cock, reat jalist in infant yaral- go to the patient. tient must come to tus, * i in ¢ tis aye hi les than two hours to live, Ba, : in Rod all Patients, safely cannot do iat. Tie ie iclal means Or.restoring - ee Oa to try an apparatus as inctly an apparatus for use, so its ion. is e ° c first got the notion Daaker Apparatus. A contraption dea Heceearly limted. Except in an. infantile paralysis epi inducing. artcial respiration ‘be di seckenkal’ cagincee cand Phi inane fy sod demic, it is seldom of pale” eee deh OF Cngel respiration would do no good his experimenting on cats. Thee s at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Drinker said the thing But emus failure is not confined to “infantile ‘a substance called curare that paralyzes. the could make people breathe. paralysis. Recently, in New York, an coup! é z respiration, subject quiescent and If Hoyt could breathe, he might live. But the muscles were found unconscious in their flat. Death, said the inse! ‘ican Indians used it to between his ribs were paralyzed, so that he could not draw medical examiner, was due to gas poisoning. Artificial n their arrows. But now science uses it a simgle breath. “Intercostal paralysis,” the doctors called respiration had been applied in vain. ‘The old woman it—"‘intercostal” meaning “betwee ibs.” was taken to the morgue. tween the ribs.” his cats an injection of ed med of deals fom infantile paralysis gee é Be es seed bs a oath of life inher ind And fap breathi are i Fagen not from paralysis o! spine, as many le ve, , mpany i pended, in hi turned from intercostal, paralysis, or the ribs, ed chest, and the of Drinker ak. Apeanatly there Yd neieabe “ come aa Lge The wretched victim sti press t he oe berate. Peles chance A test fies aart ’ was gasping piteously when he reac 08 inert o old man was thrust in pital, Dr. Aycock had telephoned i ” ahead and the artificial respira- tion tank had been wheeled to the entrance, so that not a second was lost. Hoyt was carried from the ambulance and thrust bodily into first. ‘A rather fearsome-looking tank. Six feet four inches long and 22 inches in diameter. An airtight sheet metal tank, sealed at one end. pel te ate os tated in the tank, His hea stuck out. = é Scala meron: Setanta RINKER, summoned from oie Drinker "s fills the bill perfectly. It his laboratory, pressed ; : Pie: Bill perfectly. button, The 1tor bunanted. : . i, in fac, the. last word in comfort. The ‘And suddenly the boy's distorted : face relaxed. A moment before it : i soft’ had been swollen and purple. And in the dreadful sweat of Alll through the night they k Hatin the metal tank. Asd all re hapa ae a in his sleep, ‘ is equi ith port out, But he not breathe out- holes for inserting thermometers, steth- Fee aad Degas gh be last advantage of the device a ian pone can neath, tn be put beck, c is eat, sleep and drink while the apparatus is in For three ys and nights he 2 . operation. 2 remained in the tank, hovering be- f The writer, anxious to investigate, entered fourth lemons infant’s and force i applied, subject a_bit skeptical. pulse were normal, On the fifth day he began, feebly, to are often bor breathless, and unless they get their: breath fothing happens. You: breathe normally. There is no un- move his arms and legs. Z ‘ very shortly, they die. ‘usual ‘sensation. It is possible to laugh-and talk. On the sixth day he could breathe a little outside the S Until Drinker designed a respirator for new-born ‘babies, Then the pressures are increased. It is i to re tank. On the day breathing outside was easier, and chamber, and the motor turned on. Uncannily his chest. 20.00 had ever dreamed of trying to coax. a breath for sist.You must breathe with the machine, “The sensation is he remained out for several minutes. Finally, on the tenth rose and fell. The heart action was almost imperceptible. any length of time. But Drinker thought if the large tank pleasurable: day, he could breathe outside the tank for almost 20 min- It was as though a dea man were drawing deep, regular could make adults breathe, it would be a good’ idea to “The pressures. are:changed. ‘They are rapidly raised and wics, ‘Then his breathing became labored and short, and he breaths. For two hours and 19 minutes they induced move- make a little bit of a tank and see’ how it-worked: with lowered. The’ breath comes quick ‘and’ fast, battled for life, as he ‘had a week: before, when became ment of the chest. : -babies. The principle is exactly the same, and the results Now we wil give yuu some, deep breaths says the out for only a moment. “] guess it's no use,” said an attendant. “When the afe_as gratifying. Sars demonstrator, g the: mechanical, control. On the fourteenth day Hoyt was comfortable for half breath’s left the body, that’s the end of We can ‘The other day a baby was born in‘Boston at'phe:Lying- Fi pescome aah eg chest is deeply inflated. You an hour out of the apparatus. Then for the next two weeks the let the body. thitmn all’ Kingdom Come. I hes In Hospital, that couldn't be made to breathe, They slapped ‘ cchesty, lke an opera, cinaer looks. itis Sr a ot ie ae ies itn: Vie is au aig ome ihe pales cpiabe pain Saget eg a Deker te itn ant Te Sommer pik oot te y was jet . jut ‘ ling over feng; i itin ( 5 . ‘0 remove the .subjec never wanted to leave jt ‘att oie al ween his aout fle pred Bad ee « ton! eal end of the tank, like a deck drawer. Nothing simpler. I can breathe here,” he said. “I choke when I get out. iS Respiration had been into being.” . ‘The facalty of the Harvard School of Public, Heals a et vcs A PRVERYBODY, hw teed ot oo diss thar sued iy wet emg Drinkers appara yon so moped wi ot Wlorenres ty enfered 2 at, 0 , was no way to el a cure. nurses sometimes a new-l 5 to it ed its use i ing cases: one i ately. r a his breathing improved, he was removed each moming and. - ‘Gecaonally thay bald by the bel and >” failire fren de floes i Pees ick, sad. shoawted x : qeturned vies respiration betasse ‘discal. oS ae te toetiaae Rac the mide catbon moconilen. At the and of tree moan be could breathe by hime,” ick Bu often « decor wll pt hin mowth agin the Prowiple is emazingly simple, The tank i 0. + é f E pa 3 ; % 5 f ee \ “ ah at 4 * ——s NHN TTT TT = a = = = — — = = — = 2 = = = => = = = = = = = = 7 MUKAI ALNHU AQ ORAL UAE UULVNUOLEUTU GLUE IANA MUELALUL A USUUSLUNALUCEUEK a f j i} | \ | F t-~