20th Century: Victory Over Polio

Year Published: 1959

Complete Record: Jonas Salk, Egypt--pyramids, hieroglyphics show prince w/polio, reenactment of plague(Europe), cells under microscope, scientists, turn of the century, NY city life--kids playing, jumping rope, sick girl in bed, doctor w/stethoscope, concerned mother, crowds trying to leave NY, handicapped children’s legs, braces, FDR in wheelchair, in pool able to walk, doing exercises, other polio victims in pool, gala events to fight polio, ballroom dancing, March of Dimes, soldier w/mask running in treadmill, sickly kids in ambulance, Iron Lungs, truck spraying DDT on suburban street, woman lab assistants, nurse tries to rehabilitate children, physical therapy, Jonas Salk at work w/test tubes, lines of kids to get inoculated, shots in butt, Salk inoculates his own children, Salk talking to patients, lines of kids getting shots, manufacturing vaccine, press conference announcing success of vaccine, adults now inoculated