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  2. Iron lung - Wikipedia

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    An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator, a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure in the enclosed space to stimulate breathing. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It assists breathing when muscle control is lost, or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. [ 1 ]

  3. Paul Alexander (polio survivor) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. June Middleton - Wikipedia

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    June Margaret Middleton (4 May 1926 – 30 October 2009) was an Australian polio survivor who spent more than 60 years living in an iron lung for treatment of the disease. [1] In 2006, Guinness World Records recognised her as the person who had spent the longest amount of time living in an iron lung. [1]

  5. List of polio survivors - Wikipedia

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    Mason was affected with polio at age 11 and spent the remainder of her life in an iron lung. She wrote a memoir, Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung, which was published in 2003. [72] Rosalind Miles: born 1943: Author of fiction and non-fiction books. She caught polio, aged four, and spent several months in an iron lung. [73] Peter ...

  6. John Haven Emerson - Wikipedia

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    Emerson continued to make improvements to the iron lung, adding a quick opening and closing function, an improved pressure gauge, and emergency hand operation. His final improvement was the addition of a transparent positive pressure dome, allowing ventilation when the chamber was opened to care for the patient. [2]

  7. Dianne Odell - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Louis Agassiz Shaw Jr. - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Philip Drinker - Wikipedia

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    A Drinker iron lung He and his wife Susan [ 8 ] had a son, bioengineer Philip A. Drinker , [ 9 ] and 2 daughters, Susan Drinker Moran (1926-2010), author, and Eliza Scudder, educator. Publications