Word: bundesen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati dentists held a closed membership meeting to hear Peter Garvin's appeal. By expelling him, argued Garvin, his fellow dentists denied him the constitutional right to "freedom of expression" (a right which is profitably exercised by such famed columnist-M.D.s as Chicago's Herman Bundesen and Walter Alvarez). Nor have dental society officials criticized the content of his columns, which frequently urge "consultation with your family dentist." By a margin of only five votes (79 to 74) Dentist Garvin's colleagues voted nonetheless to sustain his expulsion...
...week's end Dr. Bundesen was running out of pins...
Outside the Board of Health and at three other clinics, working-class mothers lined up with infants in arms and toddlers tugging at their skirts, filed into the emergency inoculation room. There was plenty of vaccine (156,000 shots), and Bundesen bought 50,000 lollipops to ease the needles' stings...
Most unusual feature of the outbreak ("Not an epidemic," insisted Dr. Bundesen) was its distribution. Poliomyelitis is usually most virulent among the well-scrubbed, well-laundered middle and upper classes. But half of Chicago's cases came from a tenement section on the West Side, inhabited largely by Negro and Puerto Rican immigrants. In such families, most children get mild, undetected polio infections in their early years, and such infections give them immunity for life. One guess: the children stricken had been infected before with polio virus of one paralytic strain, while the current outbreak might have been caused...
...response to Bundesen's calls, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis shipped in 11,000 hypodermic syringes and needles, and the state supplied another 3,126. The press, radio and TV passed the word: get the children in promptly for free shots. Anxious parents deluged doctors for private shots...