![Iron lung (c. 1933) used to "breathe" for polio patients until 1955 when polio vaccine became available is located in the Mobile Medical Museum, Mobile, Alabama | Library of Congress Iron lung (c. 1933) used to "breathe" for polio patients until 1955 when polio vaccine became available is located in the Mobile Medical Museum, Mobile, Alabama | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:pnp:highsm:05200:05216/full/pct:50/0/default.jpg)
Iron lung (c. 1933) used to "breathe" for polio patients until 1955 when polio vaccine became available is located in the Mobile Medical Museum, Mobile, Alabama | Library of Congress
Call the Midwife - Those who watched our Christmas Special will have seen a major story strand involving the scourge of polio, and treatment involving a machine called a negative pressure ventilator -
The Man in an Iron Lung (A Polio Survivor's Story) | college, dormitory | Paul survived polio in the 1950's and has used an iron lung to breathe ever since. He would
The Public Health Interventions for Polio Were Restrictive, and So Were the Iron Lungs | History of Vaccines
![Polio Paul' who's lived in a 7ft iron lung for 70 years reveals why he refused chance to leave it behind | The US Sun Polio Paul' who's lived in a 7ft iron lung for 70 years reveals why he refused chance to leave it behind | The US Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/paul-alexander-https-www-youtube-841698379.jpg)