Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laboratory men are growing polio virus in human tissues, hoping eventually to find a vaccine against the germ. Researchers have discovered ways to immunize mice partially. Other doctors are finding new means to help victims walk again by surgery and exercise, while psychologists are watching the effects on patients of living in an iron lung. The likeliness and control of epidemics are also getting attention. Nearly every phase of polio is being studied at the University...
...meant to replace the iron lung because it is mainly effective against only one type of polio--bulbar polio. This variety of the disease attacks the bulb at the base of the skull where the nerve center is located. The EPR takes over for the disturbed nerve center and substitutes its own steady breathing impulses for the weak, irregular ones from the brain...
...Massachusetts General Hospital three years ago. The surgeon performing the operation accidentally touched the phrenic nerve, causing the patient's diaphragm to contract. Sarnoff wondered why this couldn't be done artificially to cause regular breathing and took the idea to Whittenberger who was studying the respiration of polio victims. Together they developed the electric lung...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which gives most of the funds for University research on polio, contributed money to this project at its birth and recently provided $23,000 to the department for further work on respiration...
Drinker and Shaw constructed a crude mansized model, only to store it away in an old warehouse. Then, on Friday, the 13th of September in 1929, a man named Barrett Hoyt was dying of polio in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Since his breathing muscles were paralyzed, the doctor in charge decided to chance Drinker's respirator. The lung had only been tried once before, and then, the patient had died of pneumonia...