Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Hal Ulen has a knack of sifting talent in unpromising disguises. Before Forbes "Ted" Norris ever stepped into the shallow pool for a splash, Ulen had fashioned a two-year high scorer in '39 and '40 out of Eric Cutler, a victim of polio taking the aquatic form of treatment...
...Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., was gutted by forest fire three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 3), some 90,000 pedigreed breeding mice were caught in the flames. They represented 30 carefully bred strains, each with special qualities. Some were valuable because they were susceptible to polio, others were prone to nervous crises. Certain yellow mice (which grow fat with age) were used in the study of fatty (liposarcoma) cancers. Certain long-cherished strains were used in educational institutions all over the country to illustrate the Mendelian laws of inheritance...
...Infantile paralysis is often confused with other nervous-system disorders (e.g., various forms of meningitis). Researchers now suspect that a 1934 "polio" epidemic of 2,055 cases in Los Angeles was incorrectly diagnosed, and a supposed polio outbreak in Delaware this summer, which had almost no crippling effects, may not have been polio...
...Polio specialists have learned that psychotherapy is as important as physical care: toughest hazard in polio treatment is the patient's panicky fear of the disease...
...breathing spell from polio this year, but epidemics hit hard in Britain, Germany, Belgium, Sweden...