The iron lung is a mechanical respiratory device used to force air into and out of the lungs of a person unable to breathe for themselves. Invented in 1929 by Philip Drinker (1893-1977), a professor at the School of Public Health at Harvard University,...
An iron lung is a large machine that enables a person to breathe when normal muscle control has been lost or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. It is a form of medical ventilator. Properly, it is called a negative pressure ventilator....
Stricken in childhood by polio, Dianne Odell had spent six decades encased in the machine that kept her alive until a sudden power failure this week. Guy Adams salutes a woman of rare fortitude Courage in the face of a cruel disease ...
An iron lung that once made its way from New Jersey to New Carlisle is now going to what probably will be its final historic home at the Little White House State Historic Site in Warm Springs, Ga. The Little White House is...
A Jackson woman who contracted polio 57 years ago and continues to rely on an iron lung to breathe recently celebrated her 60th birthday, defying doctors' expectations that she could live so long and so fully. Dianne Odell, who turned 60 last week, is among...
Edna Hipps HamrickGAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) _ Edna Hipps Hamrick, who founded the Hamrick's Inc. clothing store chain with her husband, has died. She was 89.Mary Martin died Monday, according to the Blakely Funeral Home.The family business, which started out in 1945 as a grocery store...
