Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news came, Mrs. Ralph Hubbard was at Oklahoma City's Crippled Children's Hospital reading to polio victims. Nurse's Aide Hubbard dashed out, ran all the way to the Culbertson School and right into the First Grade. There she gave her son Joe the news: his father was safe...
...Prostigmine, a chemical long used against myasthenia gravis (a sometimes fatal fatigue& -weakness disease) and lately found useful for polio (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), now turns out to help some cases of crippling arthritis, spastic paralysis, facial paralysis, paralytic stroke. After treatment with prostigmine, one paralytic, reported Dr. Herman Rabat of the U.S. Public Health Service, moved his right side for the first time in 17 years...
Eleven weeks after the epidemic's peak (TIME, Sept. 25), a belated report-451 new cases of infantile paralysis for the week ending Nov. 18-made it official that 1944 is the second worst polio year in U.S. history. The 18,490 cases thus far reported exceed 1931's full-year total, but are mercifully short...
There were 1,683 new polio cases in the U.S. for the week ending Sept. 2, a new high bringing the total for the year to 9,474. Doctors hoped that the peak had been reached. Total cases reported for 1916, the worst polio year...
Another specially striking polio pattern was suggested by Dr. James Fleece Rinehart, of the University of California Hospital. Looking for clues to human resistance to the disease, he found that polio victims had a subnormal amount of salt in their blood. Previous studies have pointed out that the disease seems to attack particularly healthy youngsters after strenuous summer athletics-when they would presumably have sweated out a lot of salt. His tentative conclusion: if you haven't enough salt in your system, you may be an easier victim of polio...