Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenny (see below) at the University of Minnesota in 1942. Kabat, a boy wonder who got his Ph.D. from Northwestern at 22, was then an instructor in physiology. He discovered that prostigmine, which had been used chiefly to relieve post-operational gas pains, relieved muscular and nervous tension in polio victims, helped physical therapy to create new habit patterns...
...like a pike at a fly. More fishing permits were issued than ever before (state estimate: a million fishermen this season). The state got valuable fish migration data from reports on prize catches (so far, 132 of the 1,000 tagged have been hooked). Richard Lavesque, nine-year-old polio victim, walked from his home for the first time in two years, took 35? worth of equipment to the edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number...
Every year rheumatic fever kills far more children than polio. Dramatic publicity has led the public to chip in over $94 per polio patient for research and treatment, but for every rheumatic fever victim, only 3? has been spent. For such work as the new Hopkins program, 146 U.S. insurance companies recently set up a joint research fund. Said Dr. Schwentker last week: "They have begun to realize that a crippled heart is worse than a withered...
...Miami by plane the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis packed off a special "polio team" headed by Dr. David Steven Grice of Harvard. With him were a Yale epidemiologist, Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann, an orthopedic nurse and four physiotherapists. Three other "flying squads" of polio experts have been recruited at Northwestern, Stanford and the D. T. Watson School of Physiotherapy, to speed to the scene of any outbreak on two hours' notice...
Bigger & Better. Although Texas had not yet called for a polio team, the largest state was not to be denied the largest whoop & holler. The sale of DDT was up 600%; old cotton-duster planes were spraying creek beds (although medical authorities question the effectiveness of such measures) ; a health official said that 20,000 outhouses were destined for a purge. A mother wrote health officials wanting to know if it "was safe to mail a letter out of San Antonio." High-school graduation ceremonies were being held by radio, to avoid assemblies. The publicity would not harm a forthcoming...