Revolutionary 1 pound iron lung

Life in an iron lung

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

A tank ventilator, also known as an "iron lung," in the museum at the "Little White House," the residence of the United States' 35th president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the grounds of ...

The Scots Mission Hospital. The iron lung[?] Dr. Torrance, Sister Lee, patient Dow

The Scots Mission Hospital. The iron lung[?] (Dr. Torrance, Sister Lee, patient Dow)

Iron lungs

Paralyzed doctor

Frog breathing

Muscular dystrophy

CARE packages photographs by the U.S. Army

[Image from LOOK - Job 53-2462 titled Polio]

[Trademark registration by The Dr. Harter Medicine Company for Harter's Iron Tonic brand Remedies for Diseases of the Liver and Lungs, Ague Medicine, Tonics, Vermifuge, and Soothing Drops]

Outstanding men -- Arthur Turner; Adams; Chaput; Herman; Whiddon; Harris

Polio

Activities abord the U.S.S. RELIEF, 1941-45(?)

Medical equipment & supplies

Poliomyelitis

Infantile paralysis

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