The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. The disease ...

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The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. The disease ...

A man who lived in an iron lung for seven decades after contracting polio as a child has died. Paul Alexander, of Dallas in ...

Watch: Philip Alexander remembers his brother, 'the man in the iron lung' Philip says he became the master of his own domain, helping people to help him. "He needed a unique type of care.

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 ...