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Frederick C. Robbins - Polio

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Polio infantile paralysis was until recently a greatly feared disease, but is now preventable by a vaccine, which has largely eradicated it from the Western hemisphere; a global eradication campaign is underway. This book tells of the story of polio in fascinating and personal detail, through a series of essays written by those who experienced the disease: its victims, those who cared for them and those who worked to eliminate it altogether.The opening chapter recounts the history of polio from its earliest depiction in Egyptian art to the present day; it is followed by three personal descriptions of the experiences of patients who were paralysed in youth by polio, but went on to build successful lives. The challenges of caring for polio sufferers are described by two physicians who worked on polio wards at the height of the epidemic. The story of the cultivation of poliovirus and the testing of the vaccines is related by two research scientists who devoted much of their careers to the laboratories where the breakthroughs were achieved. The final essays describe the public health vaccination campaigns which successfully eradicated polio from the Americas, as experienced by those who directed them.Dr THOMAS M. DANIEL is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and International Health and Director of the Center for International Health at Case Western Reserve University; Dr FREDERICK C. ROBBINS is University Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.Contributors:THOMAS M. DANIEL, FREDERICK C. ROBBINS, MICHAEL W.R. DAVIS, ANN L. MCLAUGHLIN, RUTH E. FRISCHER, ROBERT M. EIBEN, MARTHA LIPSON LEPOW, JOAO BAPTISTA RISI, JR., CIRO A. DE QUADROS

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title Polio author Daniel Thomas M publisher University - photo 1

title:Polio
author:Daniel, Thomas M.
publisher:University of Rochester
isbn10 | asin:1580460666
print isbn13:9781580460668
ebook isbn13:9780585273969
language:English
subjectPoliomyelitis--History--20th century, Poliomyelitis--Biography.
publication date:1997
lcc:RC180.9.P65 1997eb
ddc:616.8/35/009
subject:Poliomyelitis--History--20th century, Poliomyelitis--Biography.
Polio
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The University of Rochester Press would like to express its sincere gratitude to Pasteur Mrieux Connaught of Marnes-la-Coquette, France for their generous assistance with the production of this book. Their support has helped to make this volume accessible to a wide audience.
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Polio
edited by
Thomas M. Daniel
and
Frederick C. Robbins
Page iv Copyright 1997 Contributors All Rights Reserved Except as - photo 3
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Copyright 1997 Contributors
All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, wihtout the prior permission of the copyright owner.
First published 1997
University of Rochester Press 3436 Administration Building University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 USA
and at P.O. Box 9 Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF United Kingdom ISBN 1-878822-90-X
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Polio / edited by Thomas M. Daniel and Frederick C. Robbins.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-878822-90-X
1. PoliomyelitisHistory20th century. 2. PoliomyelitisBiography.
I. Daniel, Thomas M. II. Robbins, Frederick C.,
1916.
RC180.9.P65 1997
616.835009dc21 97-18522
CIP
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Designed and typeset by Cornerstone Composition Services Printed in the United States of America This publication is printed on acid-free paper
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Contributing Essayists
Thomas M. Daniel
Michael W. R. Davis
Ciro A. De Quadros
Robert M. Eiben
Ruth E. Frischer
Martha Lipson Lepow
Ann L. McLaughlin
Joo Baptista Risi, Jr.
Frederick C. Robbins
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Contents
Introduction
1
1
A History of Poliomyelitis
Thomas M. Daniel and Frederick C. Robbins
5
2
Personal Memoir from the 1944 Kentucky Polio Epidemic
Michael W.R. Davis
23
3
One Couple's Journey from Paralysis to Post-Polio
Ann L. McLaughlin
47
4
Waiting for Society to Catch Up
Ruth E. Frischer
67
5
Polio and the Making of a Doctor
Thomas M. Daniel
79
6
The Polio Experience and the Twilight of the Contagious Disease Hospital
Robert M. Eiben
97
7
Reminiscences of a Virologist
Frederick C. Robbins
121
8
Love in the Virus Lab
Martha Lipson Lepow
135

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Poliomyelitis in Brazil
Joo Baptista Risi, Jr.
159
10
On Towards Victory
Ciro A. De Quadros
182
Epilogue
Frederick C. Robbins, Ciro A. De Quadros, and Thomas M. Daniel
199

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Introduction
Polio has been eradicated from the Western Hemisphere, and a campaign is now underway to achieve eradication of polio from all parts of the world by the year 2000.
Many Americans remember polio and the anxiety experienced every summer when an epidemic could be expected. Parents did not allow their children to go swimming nor mingle with crowds at movie theaters or schools. The crippling nature of the disease, the fearsome iron lung, the random distribution of the illness, and its mysterious seasonal occurrence contributed to the fear of polio in the general public. The involvement of such a prominent figure as Franklin D. Roosevelt, first as a victim of and then as a crusader against the disease, gave added fuel to the fire. Many of us remember the extensive vaccination campaigns when a large proportion of the American population was immunized. Still younger ones of us remember the delectable, painless sugar cube means of administering polio vaccine, now replaced by a few drops of liquid placed directly into the mouth. Europeans, who have had much the same kind of experiences, have similar memories. Polio has become but a memory in the industrialized world and throughout North and South America. There is hope that soon polio will be banished from the whole world.
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