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 ...

The polio survivor, famed for spending more than 70 years inside an iron lung, died Monday in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 78. While an official cause of death hasn’t been publicly disclosed ...

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 ...

Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of ... regular breathing for sustained period. Helps Polio Victims The electrophrenic respirator ...

And the sarcophagus-like iron lung, which uses bellows to keep the patient breathing, was once a common sight on polio wards. But all this feels like a long-forgotten era - and for good reason.

"I'd been used to sleeping in a ward with a lot of others ... University of Southern California Polio patients in the breathing apparatus known as "the iron lung" Now, many of them are self ...

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 ...

She was just one of 11 new patients admitted to the ward over the ... 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 ...