Iron Lungs - Macleans

By FREDERIC EDWARDS

The thrilling story of how a Canadian hospital won a desperate race with Death by building its own "polio" lungs.

[Picture of five men, two in suites, and three in workers' clothes examining an open and unoccupied iron lung]

[Picture of 5 iron lungs, 3 with child occupants.  A doctor and a nurse in masks attend.  The occupied iron lungs have toys placed on top of them, one of the occupants is reading.]

Upper: The Board of Strategy and an emergency lung. Standing (left to right): Balmforth, Hogg and Superintendent Bower. Lower: Smiling, happy and--alive! Three little patients in iron lungs at the Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto.