Back home, Dixie put me into the iron lung and set up my computer so that I could write.

回了家，Dixie把我放进铁肺，设置好我的电脑以便我可以写作。

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A young polio sufferer at Children's Hospital in Boston becomes the first person to use the iron lung artificial respirator.

1928年在波士顿的儿童医院里一个年轻的小儿麻痹症患者成为了第一个“铁肺”人工呼吸机使用者。她几乎是立即从呼吸障碍中恢复过来。

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Middleton was paralysed in 1949, aged 23, and doctors gave her a slim chance of survival. However, she holds the world record for the longest time spent in an iron lung.

米德尔顿于1949年、23岁时患小儿麻痹症，身体瘫痪，医生原先判断她活不久，但她却缔造了依靠人造肺存活最久的纪录。

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This is essential to keep me breathing when the iron lung is opened for nursing.

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

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.

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

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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