The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands of sufferers alive, by breathing for those who had lost the ability through the degenerative effects of the disease. A small handful of ...

After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body. When he died recently at the age of 78, Paul had spent more than ...

The polio survivor, Paul Alexander, lived inside an iron lung for 70 years. But what is an iron lung and how does it work. Video by Sanjana Bhambhani The mudskipper is a fish that can leap with a ...

The best-known polio paralytic in the U.S. was rounding out his tenth year in an iron lung. Jovial, 35-year-old Fred B. Snite Jr. had set a record: no other infantile paralysis victim in like case ...

Thanks to the efforts of two Harvard professors, the iron lung has developed from a useless contraption into an instrument indispensable to a modern hospital's equipment. Dr. Cocil K. Drinker ...

The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands of sufferers alive, by breathing for those who had lost the ability through the degenerative effects of the disease. A small handful of ...

is the only man in Ireland still using an iron lung. He's also a regular 60-something who does most things, from walking in his garden to attending rugby matches, and seems to be the sort of guy ...