To Sail from Shanghai on June 6
Peiping, May 31.
Mr, Frederick Snite, Jr, who. for the past 14 months has, Been Kept iron lung." is leaving the Peiping Union Medical College Wednesday ona journey which Witt take him to' Florida," He will sail from Shanghai in the Dollar liner President Coolidge, which leaves on June 6.
The special train which will take to Shanghai, accommoda The iron tung, without which he cannot tive more than five minutes, Will be driven by two gasoline any? ines under the supervision of a spe lal mechanical stall, It will be kept operation by manual power until Wis safely on the train, A similar apparatus will be ins stalled in the President Coolidge to receive "Mr. Snite who will. enter Hospital immediately on his arrival Chic The transfer from train to ship at Shanghai will be supervised with equal care.
He will be secompanied through= out the journey by D. C.
Forkner the PUM, family crete, The cost of the trip is estimated the neighbourhood of U.S, $50,000, Mr. Snite, the 26-year-old son of rican, Is. suffering from, infantile paralysis, "which he con-lu acted when he arrived here on a World cruise with other members of his family.
He was admitted to the P.U.M. otherwise known as the Rockefeller Hospital, and has just completed 14 months in the "iron lung"—casily a record in medical history. "Without the aid of the "lung," he Would have died shortly atter admission to the hospital, The patient iv able to breathe only of minutes outside the and that is why such elabor~ lo preparations are being made for the Journey to America—Reuter,
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