The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-26
FOR
FARGO-MOORHEA

For the benefit of the people of
Fargo and Moorhead, and Dilworth,
when tho new street car line is COM
pleted to the latter place, the Union
Light Heat & Power Co. has secured
through purchase a Pulmotor, which Is
an instrument that is used for arti-
fetal respiration in cases OF asphyxt-
alton, whether by gas, drowning or
any of the many poisons that Will
bring about that result.
The company has bought the ma
chine and 1t will be used by physi-
clans and others without ! cent OF
charge, this being the policy OF the
Byllesby 90 Co., owners of the Union
company, In their different plants
about the United States.
Ready at All Times.
The machine will be kept at the of
flee of the Union Light, Heat & Power
Co. and can be had at any time. 1t
is the intention from now on to have
a crew of two men at the Office all
the time who car be sent for to work
the apparatus, when a physician cam
not be, had, and these men can be
summoned at any hour of the day or
night.
On. Burton said that had such a ma
chine been here last summer the lives
Of the two Erickson boys who were
~ " AAu w OSVAA 6SfSN" A1hS
machine is in a case and the entire
case and apparatus weighs but forty
six pounds. 1t Is supplied with oXy
gen and contains a pump and equip
ment for artificial breathing.
Gave q Demonstration.
Yesterday afternoon at the
cial club Manager Hubbard of the com
pany, with attaches of the Office, gave
an exhibition OF the workings of the
machine to a number of physicians
and newspaper men, and 1t was most
interesting, and each and every Of
the medical men stated that in their
opinion 1t was a grand thing for the
people of the two cities and the vii
lage of Dilworth, and that when need
ed 1t could be had in very quick time.
The machine Is now in use in all of
the great public bathing places in the
country. and many OF the great indus
trial plants are also using it The
fact that the Union company has de-
cided to permit of its use without 1
cent OF charge to anyone and keep a
crew who understand it's workings
night and day, speaks we'll for the
owners of the anne.
Something About II.
The Pulmotor is one of the latest
marvels of science. 1t was introduced
in Chicago by the Commonwealth Edi-
son Co. some six months ago. The
wonders it has worked in the city in
bringing back the nearly dead to life
in the last few weeks has made 1t a
center of popular interest. No such
mechanical life-sayer ever a appear
ed before in the scientific world. Since
Jan, 16 the Pulmotor has been called
o resuscitate fffty-five persons over
come by poisonous gases. OF these
forty-one We're revived, four were dead
before the apparatus arrived, four at
tempts at resuScitation were unsuc-
cessful and the others were not Pull
motor cases.
Great in Drowning Cases.
The greatest possibilities of the ma
| chine are believed to lie in saving
persons from death by drowning.
Many lives are lost each yea on the
beaches because artificial respiration
cannot be produced quickly enough in
drowning persons. With a PulmotoT
on every beach physicians declare that
death by drowning will be practically
| eliminated. Persons are always eX-
cited at the time of an accident, doc
tors are seldom available without de-
lay, and while ways and means of pro-
ducing respiration are discussed and
tried, the victim is losing the slight
grasp he has on life. The PulmotoI
works directly on the respiratory or
gans and, if the spark of life still
exists. the wonderful apparatus will
fan it into flame, and give the heart
and lungs a chance to fight their w
battle, which they will do more val
iantly than any mechanism that has
ever been invented.
How TO Get II.
AS was stated the machine will be
kept at the office Of the Union Light