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Sister Elizabeth Kenny (20 September 1880 – 30 November 1952) was a self-trained Australian bush nurse who developed an approach to treating polio that was controversial at the time.
Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny. Born: September 20, 1880. Died: November 30, 1952. Major Contribution: Kenny was an Australian nurse who as early as 1910 had reported treating polio cases in the bush back "to normalcy."
Affected children and young adults traveled from across the globe to be treated by the Institute’s founder, Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny discovered a revolutionary treatment for infantile paralysis and devoted her life to the dissemination of the treatment throughout the U.S. and abroad. After doctors on the east and west coasts dismissed her ideas, Sister Kenny came to Minnesota in 1940.
Kenny, Elizabeth (1880–1952) Australian-born nurse, without formal medical training, who became known as "Sister" Kenny in World War I and later made a name for herself through her new therapy for polio victims. Name variations: Sister Kenny.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, a 59-year-old nurse who'd just arrived in the United States after a lifetime in Australia's outback, began examining Henry.
She was a trailblazer with a remarkable story – Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian bush nurse who defied the medical fraternity to develop her own unorthodox methods to treat polio.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880 - 1952) Elizabeth received no formal training as a nurse. She started her career by volunteering her services to anyone who called her for help, riding on horseback from her family home on the Darling Downs.
In 1942 the Sister Kenny Institute opened to train therapists and in 1952, she was voted the most admired woman in the US. She was a bit of a celebrity over there and a Hollywood movie was even ...