Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curtis Boettiger, hale & hearty after full recovery from a mild attack of polio two weeks ago, applied for a passport to accompany his Grandmother Roosevelt to the U.N. meeting in Paris, where he would be her secretary...
Doctors have long believed that the polio virus creeps along the nerves, on its way to destroying the nerve cells. Last week, for the first time, the virus was caught in the act. Drs. Eduard De Rober-tis and Francis Otto Schmidt of M.I.T. showed a Toronto convention of the Electron Microscope Society of America some remarkable pictures of the polio virus marching in orderly files along a nerve fiber...
...sight was cheering medical news to every polio fighter. Said one doctor: "Once we can see a thing, we can study it; and when we know how it operates, we are usually able to stop the operation...
...nerve cells. They found that the fibers were cables made up of many hollow tubes about one-millionth of an inch in diameter. The discovery gave them an idea. The "neuro-tubules" seemed ideally adapted for conducting submicroscopic objects around the body. Perhaps, thought the doctors, they conducted the polio virus on its missions of paralysis and death...
...tests on 12,000 laboratory mice, the new drug produced dramatic results. It cured mice in the early stages of polio; all mice in control groups not getting the drug died. The mice that survived were immune to reinfection. Mice getting a single dose of the drug by mouth did not develop the disease when injected with mouse polio virus...