Iron Lung Used for the First Time: Saving Polio Patients
Doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston successfully deployed an iron lung respirator to keep a polio victim breathing when their lungs failed. This breakthrough instantly transformed a previously fatal diagnosis into a manageable condition, allowing thousands of patients to survive respiratory paralysis until they could recover or receive treatment.
October 12, 1928
98 years ago
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What Else Happened on October 12
Cyrus the Great's forces marched into Babylon on October 12, 539 BC, toppling a millennia-old empire without a battle. This conquest immediately freed Jewish ca…
Cyrus the Great marched his Persian forces into Babylon, ending the Neo-Babylonian Empire without a major battle. By allowing the city’s captive populations, in…
Der römische Kaiser Lucius Verus feiert in Rom einen Triumphzug zum Ende der Partherkriege.
Edwin of Northumbria died at Hatfield Chase with most of his army. He'd united northern England and converted to Christianity. Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of …
نهاية معركة كربلاء بمقتل الإمام الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب وأهل بيته وأصحابه.
couronnement de Louis III l'Aveugle comme roi d'Italie.
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