THE MICWIGAN DAILY
Polio Victims May Become Addicted
To Mechanical Breathing Apparatus
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Polio patients confined to a
respirator tank may become ad-
dicted to the apparatus, accord-
ing to polio specialists Dr. James
L. Wilson and Dr. David G. Dick-
inson of the University Respirator
Center.
Dr. Wilson pointed out that all
but a few victims of respiratory
paralysis can be freed from the
tank respirator, except for brief
periods.
"Prisoners"
The specialist calls patients who
have come to depend on an iron
lung "prisoners." Most patients
with respiratory paralysis who
have survived the first two weeks
of polio, can be freed from the
tank within a few months, he
said.
Liberation from an Iron lung
does not mean a patient is com-
pletely free from all mechanical
aids to respiration. Dr. Wilson re-
ports that some patients sleep in
a lung at night, others are shifted
over to portable chest respirators
or rocking beds.
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HEST RESPIRATOR: No longer a "prisoner" of an iron lung this poliomyelitis patient breathes
ith the aid of a plastic chest respirator.
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Dr. Wilson feels, that, for the
most part, patients become afraid
of leaving the tank thinking they
won't be able to breathe.
Both doctors observed that
"Many patients have given up
real hope and have retreated to a
life almost of infantalism where
they have no great desire to get
out of the....pachine. "
The University Respirator Cen-
ter has been in operation for
three years with a minimum ca-
pacity at one time of 20 pa-
tients. Since its opening more
than 80 patients have been dis-
charged.
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Something is being done to help
high school students who want to
continue their foreign language
stuc'y in college without repeating
courses, according to Prof. Otto
G. Graf of the German depart-
ment.
This is because a special state-
wide committee is being estib-
lished through Prof. Graf's ef-
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proficiency throughout the state.
The committee will reexamine
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teaching materials as well as de-
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state, and attempts are' being
made to have representatives
from all high schools on a re-
gional level, from all universities,
private and community colleges,
and junior colleges on the study
committee, Prof. Graf said. He
is chairman of the University
Committee on Language Instruc-
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"Languages will have to be
moved out of the stepchild cate-
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them as important as the world
situation today requires," he
says.
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But. "we're over the hump," he
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school and more college students
elect a language as their major.
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points out. "This is a challenge
to the teachers to make their of-
ferings worthwhile, to improve the
quality of their teaching to at-
tract students."
"Here at the University," he
declares, "we feel that a knowl-
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necessary part of education."
The University has recently
changed its language graduation
requirements 'by testing on the
basis of proficiency rather than
"numbei of years studied. All en-
tering students will take an exam
which, if they pass, will be count-
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fail they will have the opportu-
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work in college, taking the test
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