Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 90 percent of the people in this country either have had some form of polio or are carrying the virus in their systems. The reason why some are crippled by the disease upon exposure and others show no effect is one of the projects under research at the Medical School and the School of Public Health...
Harvard's School of Public Health, where the first iron lung was developed more than 20 years ago, is the birthplace of a new discovery to aid polio victims--the electric lung. By electric impulses, this device causes the diaphragm to contract, thus filling the lungs...
...hopeless battle against the village virus in many a drowsy hamlet still untouched by TV. Elmer Gantry now brays at us from the loudspeaker over a national hook-up . . . And in some hidden laboratory, the incorruptible young Dr. Arrowsmith is now busy tracking down the clue to cancer or polio...
Even when a child escapes the worst ravages of polio, he is sometimes left with one leg shorter than the other. Surgeons have long sought some sure method for evening up such legs. The most popular practice has been to arrest growth of the normal leg with staples (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949) until the shortened one has a chance to catch up. This method has been highly successful, but many parents will not permit it ("My child already has one bad leg; for heaven's sake, don't tamper with his good...
...grace. Yet Paul is beset by a corroding sense of failure. He feuds with an important parishioner, can't wholeheartedly accept the girl he loves, fails miserably as an example to his heavy-drinking young half brother. It takes most of the book and a crippling attack of polio to make Paul understand his failure in life: he has everything a minister needs but humility; his faith has been not in God but in himself...