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My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard

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Jul 16, 202614:52Society & Culture

A few years ago we did a story about Martha Lillard, a woman who had spent most of her life sleeping in a device called an iron lung. Martha had caught polio in the early 1950s, and, like many polio survivors, she had di...