They had been working very closely with Dr. Young, the Australian inventer of the. machine, to improve it, continued Lord Nuffield, although Mie present model was most success-
Ils chief advantages, he declared, were its lightness, which aided transportation, and the fact that it could be worked by hand if electrical power was unavailable, Originally produced for cases of incantile paralysis, the "iron lung" could be used in'other forms of lung failure, stated Lord NuM™eld, and in cases of gas-poisoning in wartime—Reuter.
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