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School; Major Frank G. Young, of the Ord- 
nance Division of the War Department. 
A telegram was received from Surgeon-Gen- 
eral Gorgas that Dr. Charles H. Frazier, pro- 
fessor of surgery, University of Pennsylvania, 
is to represent his office. (In a subsequent 
communication Major Frazier accepted his ap- 
pointment.) Conferees: Mr. P. H. Bartlett, 
Philadelphia Electric Company; Mr. Wills 
Maclachlan, Electrical Employers Association, 
Toronto, Canada; Mr. C. B. Scott, chairman 
of the sub-committee on accident prevention 
N. E. L. A.; Dr. F. E. Schubmehl, General 
Electrie Co., West Lynn, Mass. 
The object of the commission, the chairman 
stated, is to consider efficient methods of arti- 
ficial respiration in emergency eases, as they 
are met with wm peace as well as in war. For 
more than a century, England has had several 
life-saving societies, and many special com- 
missions have been appointed to investigate 
the meéthods employed in resuscitation. In 
this country, about six years ago, a commission 
on resuscitation from electric shock was crea- 
ted for the first time, by the initiative of the 
National Electric Light Association. It is 
now generally recognized that efficient arti- 
ficial respiration is, for such conditions, the 
best and practically the only means available 
for resuscitation. It requires but little con- 
sideration to realize that the need for an 
efficient means of artificial respiration is very 
wide-spread.2 The committee on safety rules 
and accident prevention of the N. E. L. A., of 
which Mr. Kglin is the chairman, agreed that 
the Third Resuscitation Commission should 
consider its problems from a general point of 
view. 
Mechanical Methods—Dr. Meltzer demon- 
2 For instance, in injuries to the head which stop 
respiration, injuries,to the chest (especially double 
pneumothorax) in laparotomies during which the 
respiration ceases occasionally, in cases of shock 
which occur in peace and more so in the present 
war, in poliomyelitis with stoppage of respiration, 
in post-diphtheretie paralysis, in poisoning by 
opiates, by volatile gases (ether, chloroform, etc.) 
by mine and fuel gases, poisoning by magnesium 
salts, in electric shock and in drowning. 
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strated in the laboratory for physiology and 
pharmacology, the efficiency of the method of 
pharyngeal insufflation in an etherized dog 
after complete removal of the anterior wall 
of the thorax, in which the lungs and heart 
were exposed to full view. 
Dr. Rossiter, of ‘the Carnegie Steel Com- 
pany, demonstrated the latest device of the 
Pulmotor Company, which is not identical 
with the original pulmotor. He showed also 
the original pulmotor. He stated that he had 
resuscitated eight gas cases, in which the 
respiration had stopped. This was done by 
the original pulmotor, in which he had more 
confidence. 
Dr. James M. Booher, medical director of 
the Life Saving Devices Co., demonstrated the 
lungmotor. He showed a number of blood- 
pressure tracings, taken from animals which 
had received artificial respiration by means of 
this apparatus. In reply to a question, Dr. 
Booher stated that in these experiments the 
lungmotor was connected with the animal by 
means of a tracheal cannula. (In human 
cases the lungmotor is applied by means of a 
face mask.) Dr. Booher left with the com- 
mission histories of a number of cases in 
which the lungmotor had been used. (The 
commision found no time to examine these 
written histories, but Dr. Booher mentioned 
verbally especially two cases. One of these 
eases was subsequently investigated by the 
chairman. The life of a poliomyelitis patient 
with complete paralysis of the respiration was 
maintained for thirty-six hours by means of 
the lungmotor. The reporting physician is of 
very good standing.) 
In introducing Mr. Foregger, the chairman 
explained that the physician who was most 
competent to present the details of the ap- 
paratus of the Foregger Company is now in 
France. The apparatus consists in modifica- 
tions of the insufflation apparatus of Meltzer. 
Among other changes, the apparatus carried an 
oxygen generator tank. In reply to a ques- 
tion, Mr. Foregger stated that the oxygen thus 
generated may last eight or ten minutes. 
