Polio patient in an iron lung at the Scots ?
Polio patient in an iron lung at the Scots Mission Hospital in Tiberias, Palestine in March 1940. When polio weakened muscles used in breathing, an iron lung, attached to a large air pump, assisted respiration
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10665463
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45210577
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Credit
Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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Asians Assisted Breathing Diseases Epidemics Lung Lungs Muscles Patients Physicians Polio Poliomyelitis Respiration Tiberias Weakened
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