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Naomi Rogers, Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and The Golden Age of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2014) Wade Alexander, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy, (Greystone Press, San Luis Obispo CA 2012). Note: This is an unredacted edition which includes content not in the Outback Press/CQU 2003 ...
He contracted polio as a child and was paralysed for two years. [14] Gianni Russo: born 1943: Actor who played Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 movie The Godfather. He contracted polio at age seven, and spent five years in a state hospital. [15] Donald Sutherland: 1935 – 2024: Sutherland contracted polio as a child and developed a love of reading ...
The lecture hall is full. The medical director of the institute introduces her. The news broadcast of the committee report is piped in. It is devastating. Furious, the director points to the real results. The lecture continues. At the end, a crowd of children gather outside the Institute, singing “Happy Birthday” to Sister Kenny.
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Salk gives a shot of the polio vaccine to a girl during test trials in 1954. Bettmann/Getty Images In 1954, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sponsored a trial to test Salk's vaccine.
She contracted polio at six months. She managed to survive and routinely underwent physical therapy until she was eight years old. [1] In a 1990 interview, Templeton said that when she recovered, she got back 65 percent of movement in her left leg but only 10 percent in her right leg.
The "Megalopolis" director contracted polio around the age of 9 and was left bedridden and paralyzed for a portion of his childhood."I remember that night. I was feverish and they took me to a ...
Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) [1] [2] was an American dancer and actress.. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s.