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Mason, Martha. Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung

Mason, Martha. Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung

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(025740) Mason, Martha. Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung. Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 300 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. The author was struck with Polio in 1948. After a year in polio hospitals, she was sent back to her home in the village of Lattimore in the cotton growing hills of western North Carolina. She was completely paralyzed, with only her head protruding from an 800 pound metal cylinder that breathed for her. Doctors told her parents that she likely wouldn't live for more than a year ISBN: 1878086952 (Poliomyelitis, Iron Lung, Autobiography)

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