Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest difficulties facing researchers in search of a polio vaccine has been the fact that polio virus could not be grown in a laboratory without rare and expensive nutrients for the virus to feed on (e.g., monkey testicles). Last week Dr. Herald R. Cox reported that Lederle Laboratories has found a way to grow the Lansing strain of virus in fertile hens' eggs, has already made a vaccine which works on monkeys...
...polio epidemic was tapering off but slowly, with 3,227 cases reported in one week (9% fewer than the week before). The total for the "disease year" (beginning March 30) was already 41,052 cases, compared with 33,703 in the same period of 1949, the previous record year...
...Doctors' offices will soon be filled with patients demanding a drug called beta-syamine, the A.M.A. Journal warned, because it is getting a big plug in a little magazine (Pageant). Touted as a "miracle drug" for heart disease, arthritis and paralytic polio, the stuff actually has not been proved to be much good for anything, says the A.M.A., and has not even been passed by the Food & Drug Administration as safe for general...
Judy: Yes . . . When people appealed emotionally as being just, as being democratic, or being a protest against something that was happening that was not democratic, I say yes ... I don't say yes to anything now except cancer, polio, and cerebral palsy, and things like that ... I have been awakened to a realization that I have been irresponsible and slightly-more than slightly-stupid. When I was solicited I always simply said, "Oh, isn't that too bad. Sure, use my name...
...piece coveralls) which it claims will support the wearer for more than 72 hours in water. The clothes are padded with inflated material enclosed in "dryvent," a close-woven, waterproof cotton which adds little to the bulk or weight of the clothes. The suits have been successfully tested on polio victims who must spend a great deal of time in the water. Price: about $1 more than ordinary suits...