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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the book is lively and practical enough to hold most adults, 63-year-old Dr. Stimson, an ardent bird-lover, occasionally reverts to the goody-talk of pre-Parran days. Sample:
¶ Contrary to popular opinion, no vaccine, serum or drug has yet been devised that will give immunity, check the progress of the disease, or prevent final paralysis. Most polio workers now believe that the virus enters the body through the nose. Two years ago, Dr. Edwin William Schultz of...
¶ In a great number of cases, paralyzed muscles can be toned up if they are gently coaxed into action as soon as the acute stage of the disease has passed (usually four or five weeks after first symptoms). Most popular form of exercise is warm water swimming, skillfully taught...
A full-fledged editor at 18, Daniels became, during his twenties, one of the most talented and unpurchasable of Southern journalists, fought for virtually every (safely Democratic) advance in sight in the raw, nascent 80's-from free schools, coeducation, a Railroad Commission, to Prohibition (decades before its time...
Copiously illustrated with archaic, mostly unheard-of local faces, published by a home press, dealing minutely with matters which once excited a town or county, at most, a State, these 500 pages might easily have been of an interest equally local. But they are, for those very reasons and some others, an almost incalculably rich and subtle portrait of the late igth Century South: as a State, as a people, as reflected in platoons of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, industrialists, preachers and educators; as pinned down in thousands upon thousands of facts of all sorts and sizes; as embodied in every...