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He contracted polio, aged three, and spent one year in an iron lung, followed by two years in bed. He was advised to learn a wind instrument to help with his recovery. Sanborn is now affected by post-polio syndrome. [111] Dinah Shore: 1916–1994 Big band singer, actress and talk show host. Shore contracted polio, aged 18 months, which left her ...
Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his life ...
[2] [3] He contracted polio at the age of six and was paralyzed for life, only able to move his head, neck, and mouth. [4] [5] [6] During a major U.S. outbreak of polio in the early 1950s, hundreds of children around Dallas, Texas, including Alexander, were taken to Parkland Hospital. There, children were treated in a ward of iron lungs.
The last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952.
The first patient treated this way was a 12-year-old girl named Vivi Ebert, who had bulbar polio. The iron lung now has a marginal place in modern respiratory therapy. Most patients with paralysis of the breathing muscles use modern mechanical ventilators that push air into the airway with positive pressure. These are generally efficacious and ...
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 Philip ...
Dianne Odell (February 13, 1947 [1] – May 28, 2008) was a Tennessee woman who spent most of her life in an iron lung. [2] She contracted bulbospinal polio at age 3 in 1950 and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of her life. Due to a spinal deformity caused by the polio, she was unable to change to a portable breathing device introduced ...
Naomi Rogers, Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and The Golden Age of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2014) Wade Alexander, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy, (Greystone Press, San Luis Obispo CA 2012). Note: This is an unredacted edition which includes content not in the Outback Press/CQU 2003 ...