Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small plane in which the Reyes traveled from date to date. Raul & Eva live in a five-room apartment just off Manhattan's Central Park. Eva, very much of a homebody despite her appearance, used to make all her own clothes, cooks gigantic dinners of arroz con polio for massive gatherings of friends. The Reyes have an eight-year-old son named Angel. When asked his name, he invariably doubles up his fists, juts out his jaw and growls "Angel, wanna make somethin' of it?" Raul speaks perfect American, smokes big cigars and worries about his diminutive wife...
Alain Dorian, 29-year-old, polio-myelitic son of assassinated French Admiral Jean François Darlan, chatted with Mary Pickford (chairman of the women's division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital. A onetime French naval officer, Alain looked remarkably like his seadog father-whose 1942 dash from France to Algiers (where his son was first stricken) resulted in his collaboration with U.S. forces. President Roosevelt reportedly provided Alain's plane trip from North Africa to the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital several months after his father...
...treatment for poliomyelitis accepted. On doctors' desks at the same time are two research reports claiming that Sister Kenny's understanding of poliomyelitis is all wrong. No one now denies that Sister Kenny is good with her hands (in Minneapolis, where formerly about 85% of polio sufferers were left with paralysis, the Kenny method now makes all but 20% as good as new), but her critics insist that she does not really know how she does...
Almost as bad as the epidemic is people's fear of polio. This year fear of the disease is somewhat mitigated by the much publicized "hot-pack" method of the Australian nurse, Sister Kenny. About 25 Kenny specialists have been flown to the afflicted areas. But of some 2,000 physiotherapists in the U.S., only 300-odd have been trained in this new technique...
...children the tonsil operation was "the precipitating factor," warn doctors and parents that tonsil operations are dangerous during the poliomyelitis season (summer and fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...