Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curare was described in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week: Dr. Nicholas S. Ransohoff of Long Branch, N.J. says it has helped relax polio patients. (They often have severe cramps, because paralyzed muscles cause unaffected muscles near by to contract...
...Just how polio spreads is still uncertain. But the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis advises against swimming in a fresh-water pool in a polio area...
...last week, the number of U.S. polio cases had reached 5,207. This was not nearly so bad as last year's 7,792, at the same date, but many U.S. areas, hard hit, were justly alarmed. A willing press spread the alarm even to areas having small cause for worry (e.g., Rhode Island, which has had no new cases recently). The worst spots...
...research will do the trick, polio has the best chance of all diseases to be stopped. Last week the Foundation announced that its 1945 March of Dimes netted $16,589,874, a 50% increase over 1944. This represents about $860 (at last year's high case rate) for every polio case. Cancer, which kills around 170,000 persons a year, got about $4,000,000 this year in its one $5,000,000 public drive, only $23 per annual death...
...Haven last week, Warren G. Dugan, a conscientious objector, who had been working on polio in Yale's laboratories, died...