Jonas Salk's conquest

Usage examples of polio.

But this present, mysterious epidemic had a much higher fatality rate than the polio of old.

The new polio was crippling the West Coast and breaking out in New England as well.

But that was all before my sister made polio up close and personal in the family and brought back memories to my aunt.

This was just a small county hospital with about forty beds, but it also had a polio ward with two iron lungs ready to go, such was the fear in those days.

I remember the day they handed out the permission forms for the Salk polio vaccine, which was a big shot with a square needle in the meat of your arm.

Does it strike you as a queer thing that your Collins polio and my Buckley, coming in from the same district, exhibit the same phenomena?

Beaven has just come upon a new fact about polio that will put the literature on that subject into the museum.

British airports on suspicion of having had contact with a possible polio carrier at Zurich Airport, also an English girl, are still being held in quarantine.

Salk polio vaccine, which was a big shot with a square needle in the meat of your arm.

Bloomtown Community Swimming Pool and Recreation Center, which had just reopened following a polio scare.

She looks at the floor and sees all the hair that has fallen and she cries, forgetting the blindness and polio, seeing only baldness.

I have done nothing about her, or about any of them, nothing all winter long, and now March is almost upon us-the red skating flag will come down over the park and once again we will be into polio season.

If only a person is willing to risk polio from the pool, gangrene from the footbath, ptomaine from the hot dogs, and elephantiasis from the soap and the towels, he might possibly get laid.

She contracted polio last year and is making a slow recovery--too slow for her.

Excessive politeness appears to be a common disease of the early twentieth century which, like polio and scarlet fever, has largely been eradicated from modern society but I am too old to have been inoculated.