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 ...

Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of ... regular breathing for sustained period. Helps Polio Victims The electrophrenic respirator ...

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.

A polio survivor, who lived inside an iron lung for 70 years, has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander, widely known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She was just one of 11 new patients admitted to the ward over the ... there are a number of iron lung patients. The same name of nurses can care for a large number of polio victims, so it was ...