Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sister Elizabeth Kenny, whose claims to polio cures were denounced at the recent A.M.A. convention (TIME, June...
...years the medical profession has politely raised its eyebrows and looked down its nose at Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow. But Dr. Rosenow, a stubborn man, has persisted in his peculiar obsession. Says he: there is a strep-polio axis-somehow, in ways no doctor understands, streptococcus plays a malignant part in infantile paralysis. (A coccus is a round bacterium large enough to be seen with an ordinary microscope. A virus is so small it can be seen only with an electron microscope, has some bacteria-like and some protein-like qualities-no one knows for sure whether it is living...
...after year Dr. Rosenow has published painstaking research papers showing how he: 1) invariably finds a certain kind of streptococci in brains and spinal fluid of animal and human poliomyelitis victims; 2) finds the same germs in milk, water and the throats of about 33% of well people during polio epidemics; 3) finds very few of the germs between epidemics; 4) makes a streptococcus serum that protects animals from poliomyelitis...
...show the streptococcus in graduated sizes, some so small that the next size is presumably invisible. He says his converted virus causes poliomyelitis (and sometimes encephalitis). If verified, these findings will be big news, since Dr. Rosenow's streptococcus lends itself to serum making much better than the polio virus does...
Also dealt with, but probably not for keeps, was Sister Elizabeth Kenny's method of treating infantile paralysis. After two years of research, a special committee reported that: 1) just as many people recover from polio without Kenny treatment as with it; 2) Sister Kenny's concept of the disease (TIME, Sept. 27) is wrong; 3) her treatment is neither new nor unique. Retorted Sister Kenny, who was also in Chicago last week: "[The A.M.A. report is] the most criminal thing that ever happened in [any work] . . . a terrible thing to put out . . . the most cruel thing that...