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The first widely used device was the iron lung, developed by Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw in 1928. Initially used for coal gas poisoning treatment, the iron lung gained fame for treating respiratory failure caused by polio in the mid-20th century. John Haven Emerson introduced an improved and more affordable version in 1931. The Both ...
A nurse tending to a pregnant woman with polio in an iron lung in 1954. (Associated Press) Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana.
Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and author. He contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six and spent the vast majority of his life in an iron lung for more than 70 years.
Paul Alexander, who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, ... Paul developed polio in the summer of 1952, at the age of 6. ...
An Emerson iron lung. The patient lies within the chamber, which when sealed provides an oscillating atmospheric pressure. This particular machine was donated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Museum by the family of polio patient Barton Hebert of Covington, Louisiana, who had used the device from the late 1950s until his death in 2003.
Two-month-old Martha Ann Murray is watched over by a nurse in an iron lung in 1952. AP Photo The number of polio cases rose from eight per 100,000 in 1944 to 37 per 100,000 in 1952, according to ...
He studied, taught, and wrote textbooks and scholarly works on a variety of topics in industrial hygiene; [2] the iron lung itself was originally designed in response to an industrial hygiene problem—coal gas poisoning [2] —though it would become best known as a life-preserving treatment for polio.
He was one of many children placed inside iron lungs during an outbreak of polio in the US during the 1950s. Iron lungs were also used in the UK. The last person to use an iron lung in the UK died ...