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My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard

My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard

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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 difficulty breathing on her own. Her iron lung was a big metal ventilator that fit her entire body inside and used bellows to suck air in and out, helping her to breathe. Martha was the last person in the U.S. to use one.

Martha Lillard died on June 26, 2026. As a remembrance, we're revisiting our story about her.

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