"Iron Lung" Patients Watching Television

(Original Caption) "Iron Lung" Victims Get Television Set. Baltimore, Md.: "Iron Lung" victims at Baltimore's Children's Hospital have a television set now, thanks to the generosity of the Baltimore Rotary Club. This is probably the first set used to relieve the tedium of polio victims. Mirrors on the lungs permit the patients to see daily broadcasts.

"Iron Lung" Patients Watching Television
(Original Caption) "Iron Lung" Victims Get Television Set. Baltimore, Md.: "Iron Lung" victims at Baltimore's Children's Hospital have a television set now, thanks to the generosity of the Baltimore Rotary Club. This is probably the first set used to relieve the tedium of polio victims. Mirrors on the lungs permit the patients to see daily broadcasts.
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September 14, 1948
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