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The iron lung: A life-saving device with an enduring legacy
The iron lung has disappeared from modern medicine, but its legacy remains. Here’s why the device fundamentally changed how healthcare providers today tend to patients facing many different ...
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A Callout: Parts For An Iron Lung
The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands of sufferers alive, by breathing for those who had lost the ability through the degenerative effects of the disease. A small handful of ...
My friend Jere of wasted limbs and an iron lung knew what polio could do: Jeff Spiess
During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...
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Iron Lung returns to Florida for the Marching Orders punk weekender
Iron Lung channeled this chest-pounding sensation into an aural assault that caught the ears of San Francisco label ...
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Paul Alexander, Who Lived in an Iron Lung for 70 Years, Dies at 78 After Contracting COVID-19
GoFundMe A man known for living his life in an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio as a child has died. Paul Alexander, also known as “The Man in the Iron Lung,” died on Monday ...