Paul Alexander (polio survivor) - Wikipedia
Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and writer. The last man to live in an iron lung, he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. Alexander earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was admitted to the bar in 1986. He self ...
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full - BBC
After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body. When he died recently at the age of 78, Paul had spent more...
‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, …
2024年3月14日 · Paul Alexander, who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his brother...
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the …
2024年3月24日 · After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body. When he died recently at the age of 78, Paul had spent more...
Texas Man Who Lived 70 Years in an Iron Lung ... - Smithsonian Magazine
2024年3月13日 · Almost completely paralyzed from the neck down, Alexander, who died on March 11 at age 78, spent much of the next seven decades in a large steel ventilator known as an iron lung. He was one...
Man in an iron lung since age 6 dies at 78 : NPR
2024年3月13日 · Paul Alexander, who held a Guinness World Record for living the longest with the help of an iron lung, has died. Here, medical staff stand among iron lung machines in an emergency polio...
Paul Alexander, Polio Survivor Who Lived in Iron Lung for 72 …
2024年3月13日 · After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive. He was not expected to survive after that diagnosis,...
Paul Alexander (1946–2024), spent over 70 years in an iron lung
2024年3月14日 · Paul Alexander, polio victim who had largely been confined to an iron lung since 1952, died March 11 in Dallas at the age of 78.
Paul Alexander: 'Man in the iron lung' dies at the age of 78 - BBC
2024年3月13日 · 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.
Paul Alexander lived longer than anyone in an iron lung - The Economist
2024年4月3日 · Paul Alexander was one of thousands of American children who caught polio in the 1950s, and one of the severest cases to survive. He did so because he was encased in a metal tube, an iron...