Paul Alexander spent a staggering seven decades relying on his iron lung for survival. Doctors said “he shouldn't be alive,” after he contracted polio as a six-year-old. But his seven-foot ...

The polio survivor, famed for spending more than 70 years inside an iron lung, died Monday in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 78. While an official cause of death hasn’t been publicly disclosed ...

And the sarcophagus-like iron lung, which uses bellows to keep the patient breathing, was once a common sight on polio wards. But all this feels like a long-forgotten era - and for good reason.

Helps Polio Victims The electrophrenic respirator ... the electrophrenic method is superior to the "Iron lung" in the treatment of the bulbar variation of the disease. The iron lung is unable ...

Polio was a disease that devastated the United ... the effects of the disease decades after its initial strike. The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands of sufferers alive ...

Paul had survived a serious bout of polio, but had been left quadriplegic. After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his ...

Narrative: Polio, that evil disease which threatens ... Narrative: Later that day... Kid in iron lung:...and that's when I was put in this iron lung. Without it, I wouldn't be able to breathe.

As of the 1920s, that meant the infamous iron lung, the coffinlike cylinder that encased polio victims in metal, sometimes for life. Researchers believe that polio has plagued societies for centuries.

Polio was a disease that devastated the United ... the effects of the disease decades after its initial strike. The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands of sufferers alive ...