Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promise of cures or preventives for infantile paralysis has backfired so often that researchers are gun-shy. But this week a team of scientists at Johns Hopkins*-Drs. Isabel M. Morgan, Howard A. Howe and David Bodian-guardedly reported a new polio vaccine which, in trials on monkeys, has performed better than any other...
...vaccine, consisting of live virus, is not ready to be tried on human beings. But in its monkey tests it has been 100% successful: after four shots of the vaccine (into the muscles), monkeys proved immune to thousands of times the lethal dose of polio. Their immunity even stood up when the polio virus was injected directly into their brains. The vaccine is the first thus far, the Johns Hopkins researchers hopefully observed, that has produced "solid immunity...
...only 4,000 psychiatrists in the U.S. to help unstrung people out of their mental muddles. Only 4% of the current medical-training curriculum is devoted to psychiatry. Spending on mental disease is comparatively low: according to A.P.A., U.S. citizens lay out $100 per case per year for polio research v. a measly 25? per case for psychoneurosis...
...apparatus for administering electric shock at home. Heart disease, paralysis, cancer, tuberculosis and polio were among the diseases it was alleged to "cure." It might, at that: its voltages could easily cause death...
...Leipoldt's bibbing babies, sturdy five-year-old Rodney Whitley, considered going on the wagon last week. The Natal Coast boy, who had been drinking for four years (he is allergic to milk), and last year pulled through a polio attack on a diluted wine diet, is tiring of the drink...