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 ...

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?” ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...