Pulmotor Baby

In Manhattan, an infant, delivered, appeared to be a corpse; there was no action of the heart, though the lungs exhibited a faint, spasmodic twitching. For 15 minutes Dr. Israel Kassow, attendant physician, worked in vain, suddenly remembered reading of how a pulmotor had been used in a similar case in Chicago. He seized a telephone, called up the Northern Union Gas Co., explained his need; an emergency pulmotor crew raced to the hospital with siren roaring. The pulmotor forced air into the apparently lifeless lungs, sucked it out again; the lungs responded, the pulse began to strike in the small, purplish body. The infant (Seymor Cohen) lived.