The Economic Times

At age 6, he woke up trapped inside a giant metal tube and spent the next 70 years in it. Meet Paul Alexander, who lived inside a 600-pound iron lung

Paul Alexander was just six years old when polio left him unable to breathe on his own, forcing him to spend more than 70 years inside a 600-pound iron lung. Despite the odds, he learned to breathe outside the machine for short periods, earned a law degree, became an attorney, wrote a memoir and inspired millions with his determination. His remarkable life remains one of the most extraordinary stories of resilience in medical history.