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To the Editor:— I am indebted to Dr. M. Bernard Brahdy (The Journal, Dec. 11, 1937, p. 2006) for calling my attention to the article (Brahdy, Leopold, and Brahdy, M. B.:Am. J. M. Sc.178:405 [Sept.] 1929) in which he described the development of a portable apparatus for carrying on prolonged artificial respiration by intratracheal insufflation. My inquiries directed to personnel interested in the care of such cases were not in the nature of research into the historical aspects of the situation. It was merely an attempt to determine practice now or recently in vogue. The method devised by Dr. Brahdy, while a decided improvement over the intratracheal technic of Meltzer, was apparently subject to the same complications which have rendered the Meltzer, Elsberg and other intratracheal insufflation methods obsolete (Flagg, P. J.: Intratracheal Inhalation Anesthesia,Arch. Otolaryng.25:405 [April 1] 1937). Experience has demonstrated that it
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