Colorized. The iron lung was first used on October 12, 1928, on an eight-year-old girl who was brought to Children’s Hospital in Boston with paralytic polio (or poliomyelitis). Drinker’s sister ...
Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio.
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