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

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 ...

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has given birth to a 6-pound, 5-ounce boy. She becomes the first polio victim to give birth in an iron lung machine at the Elizabeth Kenny Institute in Minneapolis. The new 1950 Model 3255 Stevens ...

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These experimental devices were gradually refined and the first negative pressure ventilator to be of clinical value was described by Drinker in 1928.1 This tank ventilator or ‘iron lung’ in its many ...