He has spent 50 years on an artificial ventilator, including seven in an iron lung.

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However, there are still occasions when I need to use an iron lung.

CNN: 'I lived in an iron lung for seven years'

Although no cure was developed, a device called an iron lung was invented to help people with the disease breathe.

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Eileen Grotzsky of Queens, New York, 65, was one patient who had to use an iron lung as a young child.

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At home his father, a pediatrician, treated special-needs children and tended to Manning's mother, a polio patient who had to use an iron lung.

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When I first became ill I was not only put into an iron lung, I was also given a tracheostomy (hole in my throat).

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"Six Sessions" (formerly known as "The Surrogate, ") a highly anticipated film-festival hit with John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, is about a man in an iron lung who wants to lose his virginity.

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"The Sessions" earned two acting prizes, for John Hawkes as a man in an iron lung hoping to lose his virginity and Helen Hunt as the sexual surrogate helping him through it.

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