The Swiss treated the disease by injecting air into the chest to cause a lung to collapse. The hope was that this would crush the bacteria and then give the lung a period of rest so that it could reset. Later, while the family was in Shanghai, Jacqueline’s father would take her for rides in the countryside so she could breathe fresh air. Meanwhile, as her father tried in vain to help her, he also fought in his modest way to battle fascism, secretly helping to smuggle Frenchmen from the French concession onto boats leaving China for Britain.
