Martha Lillard: Last U.S. polio patient to use iron lung, Martha Lillard dies
Martha Lillard rests in an iron lung in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in February Martha Lillard was diagnosed with polio And survive in an iron lung. She died in Oklahoma on June 26, becoming the last American polio patient to use the machine, her sister said. She is 78 years old.“They told her she shouldn’t live past … Read more
