Evening journal., 1913-01-15
SAVING LIFE
BY PULMOTOR
Physicians See Demonstration
by Gas Company Of New
Apparatus
MACHINE AVAILABLE
FOR PUBLIC USE HERE

Under the auspices of H. S. Schutt
the enterprising and humane general
manager for the Wilmington Gas
Company, a demonstration of work
ings Of the Draeger pulmotor was
given in A. O. L. w. Hall, Ninth and
Washington streets, last evening by
James f. Conner a first-aid expert
for the United Gas improvement
Company, Of Philadelphia. which has
six OF the pulmotors in operation for
che safety of its employees and the gen
eral public. The pulmotor Is an au-
tomato oxygen rcviving apparatus
for producing artificial respiration,
combined with apparatus for ordinary
oxygen inhalation. tt Is used TO re-
store those who have been overcome
by gas. smoke. acid fumes. electric
shock. ether, chloroform or submer-
sion in water or other fluids. AL
though IL has been IN existence only
a short time. II has saved the lives OF
scores Of persons. The Wilmington
Gas Company has purchased one. not
only for the safety OF It's employees,
but also for the free use OF any ply
sician who is called upon TO treat
case OF asphyXiation, shock or sub
mersion. There are cases Of record
in which the instrument. which Is
both portable in size and simple and
automatic in construction and oper-
alton. has rctored persons many
hours after they had been given up
for dead
Mr.. Schutt is impressed so pro-
foundly by the life-saving powers On
the machine that he has issued in
structions 10 his subordinates at No.
S27 Market street to keep IL available
for company or public use at all
hours Of the day and night.
Announcement was made by the
demonstrator that the duPont's have
ordered several OF the machines for
use i'm their plants for the resuscita-
ton Of employees who may be over
come by acid fumes
Many physicians and laymen Wit
messed the demonstration last even
ing Most OF them had the instru-
ment applied TO themselves. The
physicians we're particularly well
pleased with the machine and with the
liberal and humane spirit that had
prompted the Wilmington Gas Com
Dany 10 make il available for their
use
The pulmotor Is contained in a
hardwood case a trine larger than a
suit case II Is so simple that even
q layman can attach it 10 an uncon-
scious person and give first aid AS
soon as the mask has been fitted over
the mouth and nOstrils of a victim
the machine begins 10 initiate and de-
fate the lungs. oxygen that is sixty
per cent. pure being used. The ex-
hailed. or impure air, does not return
to the oxygen. but is carried away
through a separate tube. The pull
motor is adjusted with such a degre6
OF nicely that the rythm of respiration
adjusts itself automatically accord
ing to the dimensions OF the lungs
Both delivery and suction are harm
less TO the organism. In other words
if the artificial respiration is being
applied 70 large lungs the machine
exerts its full power. whereas, II Il
is being applied to small lungs, il
reduces ifs power to suit them. no
adjustment OF the oxygen-pumpine
and extracting mechanism being re-
Quired by the operator.
The machine may be operated Tor
hours, the only thing needed being
for the operator to put in new tank
OF oxygen when the one that is being
used is on the eve of exhaustion In
short the German inventor has per-
fected a machine which. when at
tached TO the mouth and nostrils, re-
suits in the restoration Of regular
breathing If even the slightest trace
of blood circulation. through the &C.
tion of the heart, be present in an
apparently lifeless body. the lungs
are supplied with oxygen just as in
natural respiration, so that the most
favorable conditions imaginable for
resuscitation are provided.