He suffered extensive injuries and was placed in an iron lung at the Brisbane General Hospital.
He contracted polio on his way to Malaya and was invalided back to UK and spent a year in an iron lung.
The last years of his life he suffered tuberculosis; for an attempt of operative surgery he went to Berlin to the Charité as one of the first patients of Ferdinand Sauerbruch when using the iron lung there.
She died in an iron lung in Maumee Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, eighteen hours after she was discovered by her husband.
Workers pushed an iron lung, formerly used in the treatment of polio, from the second floor to the ground and in the process shattered the device into pieces.
The song's caustic, self-reflexive lyrics used the iron lung as a metaphor for the way "Creep" had both sustained the band's life and constrained them ("this is our new song / just like the last one / a total waste of time / my iron lung").
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