On this episode of Our American Stories Daryn Glassbrook of the Mobile Medical Museum tells the story of the iron lung a device used to keep people with advanced polio alive in the first half of the th century New York Times bestselling author Harlow Giles Unger of twenty-eight books including Dr Benjamin Rush The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation tells us how Dr Benjamin Rush became known as the Father of Psychiatry the Army Medical Corps Veterinary Care and biblically-taught Public Schools Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate nbsp Time Codes - Trapped Inside a [... more]