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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Louis: The dramatic efforts of two nurses, who pumped the bellows of an iron lung by hand when a generator failed, saved the life of Wanda Ellis, 3-year-old polio victim today as the child was ...

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

As of the 1920s, that meant the infamous iron lung, the coffinlike cylinder that encased polio victims in metal, sometimes for life. Researchers believe that polio has plagued societies for centuries.