Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1919 — CURES BY WIRELESS [ARTICLE]

CURES BY WIRELESS

New York —Diagnosing and successfully treating a case of illness on a ship 100 miles away without seeing his patient was the unique experience of Lieut. Commander A. E. Younle of Portland, Ore., senior surgeon of the transport Sierra, which docked here recently. . ‘ A few days later, however, this ■episode in naval surgery was eclipsed wlflff six doctors, evenly divided between the transports Selrra and the "attended” a conference regarding an outbreak of Influenza on board the latter vessel, though they were separated by fifteen ( miles of water. In the first Instance the wireless telegraph was used; in the second, the wireless telephone. While the Sierra was in midocean it received a radio from the captain of the British ship Pollac, saying that a tnember of his crew had been suddenly taken ill and that he was in a critical condition. The advice of surgeons in the Sierra was asked. Though

the Sierra was 100 miles away from the Pollac, Commander Younle took the case. By wireless all symptoms of the sailor’s malady were reported and by Wireless Commander Younle prescribed treatment.' Reports of the sick man’s condition were sent by radio ’hourly for two days thereafter. At the end of that time he showed marked improvement, and when last heard from gras recovering rapidly.