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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.
Joe Middleton looks at the life of Paul Alexander, who spent 70 years in an iron lung before passing away at 78 ... tin can” surrounding his body, Paul decided to forge on with his life and was ...
Paul Alexander, of Dallas, Texas, was paralysed by polio in 1952 and spent the rest of his life living in an iron lung ... Health officials declared a national incident after the polio virus was ...
The polio survivor spent more than 70 years being kept alive by the medical device.
In her audio interview, she reported that she was having problems obtaining replacement parts to keep her machine working properly. [54] On March 11, 2024, Paul Alexander of Dallas, Texas, United States, died at the age of 78. He had been confined to an iron lung for 72 years from the age of six, longer than anyone, and was the last man living ...
The male cadaver is from Joseph Paul Jernigan, a 39-year-old Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1993. At the prompting of a prison chaplain he had agreed to donate his body for scientific research or medical use, without knowing about the Visible Human Project. Some people have voiced ethical concerns over this.
A paralyzed Texas man who lived 70 years inside an iron lung after he survived polio as a child has died, his family said. Paul Alexander, 78, died on Monday, his brother Philip said in a post on ...
Somatoparaphrenia is a type of monothematic delusion where one denies ownership of a limb or an entire side of one's body. Even if provided with undeniable proof that the limb belongs to and is attached to their own body, the patient produces elaborate confabulations about whose limb it really is or how the limb ended up on their body.