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.

In January, he set up a “Polio Paul” TikTok account, where he described his life accomplishments and answered questions about life in an iron lung like “How do you go to the bathroom?” ...

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 ...

where a polio epidemic was widespread. Today, Costello, the subject of Would You Believe: Iron Will, is the only man in Ireland still using an iron lung. He's also a regular 60-something who does ...

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.