Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that's the way to really whip that mean old polio...
...Antonio last week "Red River Dave" McEnery (TIME, March 18) was yodeling The Polio Song daily over station WOAI. San Antonio, with 30 cases, had a bad case of polio jitters. Nationally, the incidence of infantile paralysis, 813 cases, was up almost 17% over last year. But the only state in which the disease had reached epidemic proportions (one case per 1,000 population) was Florida, where 126 were afflicted, and six had died...
Died. Dr. Simon Flexner, 83, world-famed pathologist who discovered the organisms which cause bacillary dysentery, influenza, spinal meningitis and polio; in Manhattan. Appointed director of the newly formed Rockefeller Institute in 1903, he stayed on the job 32 years, nursed the Institute from a scientific fledgling to an organization of worldwide scope and importance...
...tiny Hartsville, S.C. (pop. 5,000), Dr. William Egleston worried over an infantile paralysis patient. Uncertain how to treat the disease-then (1924) relatively unexplored-Dr. Egleston, general practitioner, sent off a letter to a prominent polio victim, asking his advice...
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the stormy petrel of polio, had a new complaint. She swooped with angry cries on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The Foundation, she thinks, falsely claims (in the literature announcing the 1944-45 March of Dimes) that it supports her work...