Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-02-04
Of INTEREST TO
SCANDINAVIANS
Recent Happenings in This
: Country and Abroad
COMING into WORLDWIDE USE

Apparatus for Artificial Breathing In
vented by Dr.. Allan Fries Of Sweden
Movement to Strengthen Norway's
Defense Given Impetus by Leading
Citizens-Liberai Party in Denmark
In Favor Of Total Prohibition Of
intoxicating Liquors.
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About two years ago DR.. Allan Fries
invented and demonstrated an appa
ratus for artificial breathing, which
won the most ample praise from diff
ferent medical authorities, among 9th
ors from DR.. J. E. Johansson, the ia
nous psychologist, who declared that
1t was an article which should be
found in every hospital, on railway
trains and steamships or wherever &C.
cidents were liable to happen, claim.
ing that 1t was especially easy to han.
die by any person possessed of lit.
tie common sense. The result was
that a number of hospitals secured the
apparatus and have used it success.
fully, principally In Germany, where
the Berlin firm, Inhabad Gesellschaft
is now manufacturing these articles
having purchased the patent from Dr.
Fries. Through this firm the appara.
tus has become widely known In Eu'
rope and America and at the medical
congress In Groeningen and at the
congress in Washington last summer
1t was awarded the Red Cross prize
and given the most hearty approval by
world famous physicians. The appa.
ratus already has been introduced in
England, France, America and Ger.
many. In Germany alone not less
than 800 were sold last year. 1t
comes in wonderfully handy in saving
lives at bathing resorts, in mines and
at all sorts of construction places and
In factories, in fact any place where
accidents are liable to happen and
where hitherto the pulmoter has
been used. The apparatus has been
greatly improved recently through a
little ingenious device by means OF
which the air is sucked out and press.
cd into the lungs Of the patient, which
naturally is of the most vital impor.
lance In resusciation cases. There
have been cases where the apparatus
has been used several minutes after
the accident happened and although
It has some times taken hours to Sc
cure respiration it has nevertheless
been successful in most cases. It has
already saved scores of persons who
were pronounced dead.
A number of prominent Swedes ex
pect to join in the Antarctic quest, &C
cording to advices from Stockholm
published in the London Times re-
Gently. The Swedish Antarctic com
mittee, an association formed last
year with Admiral Palander at Its
head and Professors Nordenskiold, An
derson, De Geer, Nathorst and Iona
berg among its members, has planned
the expedition, which will start in the
autumn Of 1915. 1t is intended that
the proposed expedition shall estab
lish base of supplies in Graham
Land, somewhere on the shores of
the Antarctic sound, the scene Of the
Nordenskiold expedition, and spend
i've years in exploring the country
The expedition will consist of ten
scientific men, we'll acquainted with
the Antarctic regions. The Antarc.
tic committee estimates that the cost
OF the expedition will be 100000
crowns ($72,369). The government
has included a grant of half that
amount in the estimates recently pre-.
sented to the riksdag.
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The Swedish actress, Martha He'd
man, well known in the United States,
where she won reputation as a
diva of the foremost rank, is now in
London. 1t seems as if she will be
crowned with the same success as in
America. The Times, Daily Mail, Pail
Mall Gazette, Daily News and other
papers In London are all speaking in
laudatory terms of her wonderful
work on the stage
The motor sleigh has arrived in
Sweden and has been given a test
and found to answer the purpose. The
motor sleigh was constructed in the
Hojen works in Eegnsjo, Helsing.
land. and was tried the other day on
distance Of six Swedish miles (about
forty English miles). The trial was
highly successful.
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Bishop Gottfrid Billing Of Sweden,
interviewed recently with reference to
his becoming possible candidate for
the archbishopric made vacant through
the death of Archbishop Ekman, de
clared that owing to his advanced
age he would not allow his name tc
be mentioned in that connection.
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King Gustaf has appointed K. A,
Fryxell, Phi. D., as the head of the
College Of Commerce. Dr. Fryxell has
been at the head of the finance de.
partment for a number of years. Dr.
Henrik Themptander is DR.. Fryxelrs
successor in the finance department