massive hospital ward, filled with dozens of dying polio victims, another family lost their child,” he continued. “Eventually, the rhythms of the iron lung motors would begin their sad song ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...