Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polio. 4. Scarlet fever...
...were not for its heartbreaking subject, Sister Kenny could be lauded as a slick, above-average screen biography. But the whole subject of polio, its cause and its treatment, is of deep concern to every parent in the world. Any distortion or any half-truth on the subject can be both cruel and dangerous. The film's most outstanding distortions, implied rather than explicitly stated...
...acknowledge medicine's debt to Sister Kenny and employ her treatment in whole or in part. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis alone has spent $2 million for advancement of physical therapy, including the Kenny technique. But even when they use the Kenny treatment, most doctors agree that polio is a disease of the nervous system, vigorously reject the Kenny theory that it is primarily a muscle-&-skin disorder...
...polio victims treated by Sister Kenny get up and walk; those treated by other orthopedists become lifelong 'brace-&-crutch cripples. The facts: Sister Kenny's record in Minneapolis, over a five-year period, has just about matched the average for all modern polio treatment: 6% deaths, 16% remaining severely paralyzed...
...soft-drink company, got a jeep agency. He tatted expertly, joyfully did the housework during the maid shortage, attended antique auctions, where he bid fiercely in competition with society matrons. One night a week he played bridge with Alf Landon and two other Republicans. This summer's polio epidemic dealt him a cruel blow-two of his three children contracted the disease; son Marcus, 12, died, daughter Melissa, 11, recovered...