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The Iron Lung, Circa 1940s

Black and white photo of a person inside an Iron Lung, a large cylinder shaped coffin like machine

Image retrieved from Archive.org. Published September 21, 2005.

URL: https://archive.org/details/Iron_Lung_Blues_

 

The iron lung was an invention that was used for real medical purposes, a cylinder shaped mechanical respirator that started to be used in the 1930s and were more common in the 1940s during polio outbreaks.