Hours each day in an iron lung kept her breathing, her will to live kept her alive

The sister of the last known polio patient in the US to use the life-saving machine spoke to the BBC about her sister's life.

Last American to use an iron lung dies at 78 years old after childhood polio diagnosis

Martha Lillard contracted polio at age five and relied on an iron lung to breathe, but COVID-19 left her dependent on the ...

Last U.S. polio patient with an iron lung dies at 78 in Oklahoma

Martha Lillard was diagnosed with polio at age 5. For the past two years, she was in an iron lung nearly 24 hours a day.

Martha Lillard, last known US polio survivor using iron lung, dies aged 78

Lillard, of Oklahoma, contracted polio when she was five and slept inside cylindrical metal device to help her breathe ...
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Last US Polio Patient Using an Iron Lung Dies at 78

The death of Martha Lillard, believed to be the last US iron lung user, highlights the lifelong health effects of polio and ...
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Polio wars : Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine / Naomi Rogers

During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. Sister Elizabeth ...

Martha Lillard, last US iron lung polio survivor, dies at 78

Martha Lillard, believed to be the last polio survivor in the United States to depend on an iron lung, has died at 78 in ...