1930s
How cats helped create the first iron lung machines for polio victims (1938)
Every year, hundreds of children were stricken with polio. Before testing iron lung machines on humans, two dozen cats had to die under anesthetic.
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1950s
Safe, efficient & potent polio vaccine a great medical advance (1955)
Polio vaccine is a great medical advance Reports from the leaders in the polio vaccine field that the treatment is safe, efficient and potent marks
1960s
Why the new measles vaccine is recommended (1965)
Measles highly contagious and it can be dangerous: Vaccine recommended by Demont Roseman Jr Chapel Hill, NC — “She was terribly sick for four or five
1950s
Too few physicians – or not enough? (1958)
New, quicker cures The more optimistic medical leaders say the need for doctors is being reduced. They point to such developments as these: Polio vaccine
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