1940s polio treatment. Nurses treating a boy with infantile paralysis (polio) using the Kenny method. Hot compresses are applied to the affected limbs,and this is followed by muscular and nervous re-education. This method was developed in the 1930s by the Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952),and brought to the USA in the 1940s. Polio,also known as poliomyelitis,is a childhood disease caused by a virus. Polio epidemics in the early 20th century left thousands paralysed. Vaccines were developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Photographed in Poston,Arizona,USA | |
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