Abstract
In March 1940 Miss Elizabeth Kenny of Brisbane, Australia, proceeded to America to present to the American medical profession her unique and original method of treating the disease infantile paralysis. The method of treatment which has become known as the Kenny system has been evolved by Miss Kenny as a result of her painstaking study of the signs and symptoms presenting themselves in the acute stage of the disease as she has observed them over the considerable period of years since her graduation as a nurse in 1911. Her work has been officially recognized by her government in that clinics have been established at various centers throughout the Australian state of Queensland, and the treatment has been made available in the public institutions. Convictions based on this recognition prompted Miss Kenny to seek acceptance by the American medical profession in the belief that more widespread use of the method would
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