Posted on Mar 13, 2024
Paul Alexander, ‘The Man in the Iron Lung,’ has died at 78
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SFC (Join to see) Alexander contracted polio during the worst years of the U.S. outbreak, a time when hospital wards held row after row of children lying in iron lungs — seven-foot-long cylinders that use negative pressure and bellows to draw air into their lungs. Rest in Peace...
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