Paul Alexander, the American who was diagnosed with polio, in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. died on Tuesday at the age of 78.
For almost 70 years, Paul lived in an “iron lung,” a steel machine that allowed him to breathe throughout this period.
n 1952, when he became ill, doctors in his hometown of Dallas operated on him, saving his life. But polio meant his body was no longer able to breathe on his own.
The answer was to place him in a so-called iron lung – a metal cylinder enclosing his body up to his neck.
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