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 -
![Polio Paul' who's lived in a 7ft iron lung for 70 years reveals why he refused chance to leave it behind | The US Sun Polio Paul' who's lived in a 7ft iron lung for 70 years reveals why he refused chance to leave it behind | The US Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/paul-alexander-https-www-youtube-841698379.jpg)
Polio Paul' who's lived in a 7ft iron lung for 70 years reveals why he refused chance to leave it behind | The US Sun
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
![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 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](http://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:pnp:highsm:05200:05216/full/pct:50/0/default.jpg)