A patient lying in an artificial respiration machine called an iron lung in 1983. London Express/Getty Images Have you ever thought of a device in which the human body is encapsulated and then forced ...
Paul Alexander was just six years old when he was struck down by polio and was left paralysed from the neck down. Unable to breathe by himself, Paul, of Dallas, Texas, was encased inside an iron lung- ...
A man has survived 70 years inside an iron lung machine against all odds. Doctors doubted six-year-old Paul Alexander would live much longer saying he "shouldn't be alive" as he lay flat inside his ...