Abstract

Elizabeth Kenny became world-famous in her day for her treatment of paralysed children -especially those suffering from paralytic poliomyelitis. Young doctors and nurses of my generation, in the 1940's and 50's, were really scared of getting ‘polio’. A medical student a year ahead of me at Oxford died in an ‘iron lung’ at the Radcliffe Infirmary.

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