In the 1950s and 1960s doctors used to place people in iron lungs if they were unable to breathe on their own. A boy named Paul Alexander, aged 6, contracted polio in 1952. He was only six years old, at the time. The disease paralyzed his entire body from the neck down.
Photos of him and other children like him inside these huge steel devices are hauntin…
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