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Subject: [GM-L] Epidemic: A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors First noted in 1845
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:34:11 EDT

CHAPTER ONE
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New York 1916

One of the most amazing things about poliomyelitis is that no epidemic of it
was noted until seventy-one years ago. Large epidemics of other virus
diseases, such as smallpox, yellow fever, influenza, and measles, are
recorded much farther back in history.

CONTENTS

Part I: The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Poliomyelitis..................1
1 New York 1916.................................................3
2 FDR..........................................................29
3 Warm Springs.................................................41
4 Polio Crusaders..............................................54
5 An Angel Abroad..............................................85
6 A Planned Miracle...........................................111
7 The Quick and the Dead......................................159
8 Born Too Soon...............................................188
Part II: Lives of the Polios.......................................227
In England.....................................................229
In America.....................................................276
A Civil Wound: an autobiographical coda........................305
Appendix: Monkey Business..........................................322
A Note on Sources..................................................325
Notes..............................................................328
Select Bibliography................................................346
Index..............................................................354

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