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 ...

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

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 usually affects children under five years old but anyone who has not been vaccinated is at risk of being infected.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

At St. Anthony’s 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 a matter of economy with Foundation funds that dictated ...