Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Curtis Boettiger, 18, famed during the '30s as White House grandchild Buzzie Dall, now an assistant radio producer, came down with polio, an affliction not unfamiliar to his mother, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. He was still hopeful that he would be able to act as secretary to his grandmother when the U.N. meets in Paris later this month. His doctors described the attack as definitely "a mild case...
This week Columbia issued its first authorized report on phenosulfazole. The news was good. But the university made it plain that it will be a long time before anybody can safely use the words "cure" and "polio" in the same sentence...
Bright Idea for Polio. Next to a cure, what polio fighters need most is a cheap, quick test. In its early stages, infantile paralysis is hard to diagnose, because the symptoms (fever, headache, upset stomach) may be those of half a dozen childhood ailments. A new drug may seem to work wonders when all the time the patient only had grippe. A new diagnostic test on mice was reported last week in Science by Dr. Pierre R. Lepine, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He injects fecal material from suspected polio patients into the brains of five mice. Two days...
Good news for the mice is bad news for the human patients. By the tenth or eleventh day, at least four out of five of the control mice should be paralyzed or dead. But if the patient had polio, at least three out of five of the first group of mice should be alive and scampering; the human material protects them from the virus. If it did not protect them, the patient did not have polio. Said one U.S. investigator: "It's very encouraging . . . but right now it's just a bright idea...
Infantile paralysis, 1948, last week kept up its bullying, unpredictable course: ¶There was a dip in new cases in North Carolina, hardest hit of all states. The board of health reported the lowest one-day polio incidence in two weeks, 27 cases. The epidemic, with more than 1,000 victims, might be waning. ¶The news from California was worse. Polio was officially labeled "epidemic" in Los Angeles County, where there had been 427 cases since the beginning of July. Total for the state: 803. ¶News from the country as a whole stayed bad: 1948 might...