Iron Lung, 20th Century

Technician calibrating an iron lung machine. These machines were used to keep polio patients alive, enabling them to breathe by creating a negatively-pressurized environment around their bodies after having been sealed inside the machine, with only their head exterior to the confines of the apparatus. Poliovirus is a member of the enterovirus subgroup, family Picornaviridae. Enteroviruses are transient inhabitants of the gastrointestinal tract, and are stable at acid pH. Picornaviruses are small, ether-insensitive viruses with an RNA genome

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Acute Air-tight Artificial Calibrating Communicable Contagious Emerson Equalize Infectious Lung Medicinal Polio Poliomyelitis Pressure Respiration Respirator Technician Transmissible Ventilator Viral

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