Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Both Respirator, also known as the Both Portable Cabinet Respirator, was a negative pressure ventilator (more commonly known as an iron lung) invented by Edward Both in 1937. In 1937 Australia faced a poliomyelitis (polio) epidemic. At the time iron lungs provided one of the main methods of treating the "paralytic breathing failures" that were a complication of the illness. Although tank respirators had been developed earlier, the iron lung itself was still fairly new, having been designed by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw in 1928. Their design, which became known as a "Drinker's" or, due to its construction, an "iron lung", proved to be an effective means of prolonging the life of patients suffering from poliomyelitis – although the first person to be treating in the ventilator died after two days from cardiac failure possibly related to pneumonia, the second patient recovered after spending two weeks in the machine.

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