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Milestones in Polio

Milestones in Polio illustrates the slow but steady advancements from its clinical description and discovery to widespread infection…

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Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw developed the ‘iron lung’ to aid respiration

In 1929, Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw developed the ‘iron lung’ to aid respiration.

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The first iron lung was used to treat polio patients

On Oct. 12, 1928, the first iron lung was used at Boston Children’s Hospital by Harvard Medical School…

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The iron lung was invented

In 1927, the iron lung was developed by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw at Harvard School of…

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