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

At St. Anthony’s 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 a matter of economy with Foundation funds that dictated ...

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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T he best-known polio paralytic in the U.S. was rounding out his tenth year in an iron lung. Jovial, 35-year-old Fred B. Snite Jr. had set a record: no other infantile paralysis victim in like ...

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this was the height of polio incidence — there were 52,000 cases of paralytic polio in the United States. We also had an incentive because in the building we working in, on the third floor, there were ...

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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 ...