He has spent 50 years on an artificial ventilator, including seven in an iron lung.
This is essential to keep me breathing when the iron lung is opened for nursing.
However, there are still occasions when I need to use an iron lung.
This iron lung can be tipped head down and rotated through 180 degrees so that I am lying face down.
On these occasions I go into a "tipping and turning" iron lung -- a more recent development of the original.
Although no cure was developed, a device called an iron lung was invented to help people with the disease breathe.
Eileen Grotzsky of Queens, New York, 65, was one patient who had to use an iron lung as a young child.
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.
When I first became ill I was not only put into an iron lung, I was also given a tracheostomy (hole in my throat).
In other words the iron lung is sealed and attached to bellows, which lower the air pressure inside the iron lung to create a negative pressure.
"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.
"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.
He spent most of his final 37 years on Cape Breton, working on projects as varied as the vacuum jacket (a forerunner of the iron lung), man-carrying tetrahedral kites and, most famously, the hydrofoil.
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