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 -
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Longview Rotary Club continues effort to help eradicate polio worldwide
The Iron Lung | Science Museum
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
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Living inside a canister: Dallas polio survivor is one of few people left in U.S. using iron lung
The Iron Lung and Other Equipment | National Museum of American History
End of a life spent in iron lung – The Denver Post
Polio survivor is one of last iron-lung users in U.S.
What Is an Iron Lung, and How Does It Work? | Discover Magazine
Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination, 1950 - Rare Historical Photos
Iron lung on display at Southern California Medical Museum | WesternU News
Lookback: The Iron Lung and Polio - County 10
Polio survivor is not defined by iron lung - The Columbian
Meet longest surviving iron lung patient kept alive by a machine for 70 years | Guinness World Records
Philip Drinker, polio, and that “damn machine” | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Book Excerpt: How the Iron Lung Transformed Polio Care
The Last Few Polio Survivors – Last of the Iron Lungs | Gizmodo - YouTube
From Iron Lung to Microprocessor Ventilators: Advances in Respiratory Care Practice – Vaccines
This polio survivor is one of the last still using an iron lung ventilator : NPR
Iron lung - Wikipedia
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 Last of the Iron Lungs
How 'Polio Paul' survived living in an iron lung for 70 years
The man in the iron lung | Polio | The Guardian
