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Description: | Collection of black & white photographs, some mounted onto card, showing patients and staff involved in iron lung treatment for poliomyelitis at the Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital, Alton, 1937-1939. Most pictures feature Eric Marchant, the hospital's first iron lung patient whose 1937 photographs inspired Lord Nuffield's gift of iron lungs to the Empire. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photographs | Temporal: | 1937-1939 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Unknown source | Identifier: | 2002-380 | Go to resource |
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