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Mondor Mural

The Emerson Respirator

Item

A nurse attending to a patient inside an iron lung machine, with medical equipment in the background.
Title
en The Emerson Respirator
Description
en This historic 1960 photograph depicted a nurse caring for a victim of a Rhode Island polio epidemic, who was inside an Emerson respirator, also sometimes referred to as an iron lung machine. Devices like these, were used by polio patients, whose ability to breath thwarted due to paralysis of those muscles needed to complete the acts of inhalation and exhalation.
Format
en JPEG
Type
en Still Image
Language
en English
Identifier
en 12009
Date
en 1960
Note
en Caption from CDC
Source
en https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=12009
Publisher
en Public Health Image Library (PHIL), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Item sets
Mondor Mural
Media
A nurse attending to a patient inside an iron lung machine, with medical equipment in the background.12009.jpg