Paul Alexander, Renowned as the ‘Iron Lung Man,’ Passes Away at 78
The 78-year-old “Iron Lung Man,” who is renowned for having survived polio, has passed away. When Paul Alexander was six years old in 1952, he developed polio, which rendered him paraplegic from the neck down. Because the illness prevented him from breathing on his own, physicians had to put him in an iron lung, where…