Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fascinated by the discovery, Kabat got himself an M.D. so that he could better pursue his study of paralysis. Last year, while working in Washington on polio cases in U.S. Public Health Service hospitals, he gradually realized that the treatment of spastics was no less urgent...
...emotional approach to polio was given a further stimulus last week with the arrival from Australia of Sister Elizabeth Kenny. She went dramatically to Minneapolis, where her controversial treatment (hot packs, exercise of affected limbs) was first adopted in the U.S. (in 1940). Objective: to evaluate the work and prove "the ability of Kenny technicians to meet an emergency...
...Kabat clinic a patient is given four doses of the drug daily and an hour of specialized muscular re-education much like that for polio cases. Treatment takes from six months to a year, and costs $200 to $250 a month. Improvement is apparently retained. Possibilities vary with the extent of brain damage, but most of Dr. Kabat's patients have improved-the speechless have begun to talk, the trembling have learned to eat with a steady hand, walk with a sure step...
...inevitably as warm weather breeds poliomyelitis, polio breeds panic. This year's epidemic, now nearing its peak, is bad-50% greater than last year-and worst since 1934 (latest federal statistics); San Antonio, Denver and Minneapolis have been especially hard hit. But the U.S. Public Health Service has pointed out that the cases (2,596 so far) are scattered, and that the epidemic seems unlikely to take on menacing proportions...
Best defense: "Stick to the simple and well-established concept that poliomyelitis is principally, if not entirely, spread by direct and intimate personal contact." Biggest polio problem: countless persons, carrying the virus and suffering from unnoticed, subclinical infections, are unaware that they are infected...