Show Its lItis Dynamite Polio Grim Textbook For Medical Student By Joseph R. R L. L Sterne Polio is dynamite This year Utah had over cases Next year there might be more than 2000 and only the March of Dimes could take care of the victims An earnest young man who will willbe willbe willbe be graduated next June from the medical school of the University of Utah puffed slowly on his pipe as ashe ashe ashe he pondered the words he had just uttered He was watching his son Shawn 5 show baby brother Joel how to work the electric trains You see that harness Shawn must wear he said When polio pollo hit him last year the virus concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- on his neck shoulders arms and hands If his shoulders weren't braced his arms would fall out of their sockets T The curly haired y youngster u n g s t e r looked up and grinned He moved his right hand to show his arms are not completely useless Hit lard Area Mr and Mrs Leo H. H T. T Bernstein Bernstein Bernstein Bern Bern- stein Beta st. st came to Utah three years ago from New Brunswick Bruns wick N. N J J. J when Mr Bernstein entered the medical school They live in Stadium Village a section hard hit by polio during the 1948 epidemic Six cases and one death were reported in the four-block four area I I was wa afraid it was wa polio from the very beginning he said t r j of Shawn complained of a pain inthe Inthe in inthe the back of ot his neck last Oct 20 I kept l on hoping it was a false alarm and said nothing to my wife although she later told me she suspected the same thing When his his temperature went higher the next day we called caned the doctor and our boy was hospitalized hospital hospital- immediately He stayed there three long months Paralysis didn't set in right away we away we caught it early early but but that didn't seem to help very much Iron Lung I As HAs his arms started to stiffen and breathing became more difficult difficult difficult cult he fell feU into a that lasted for a week A respirator couldn't do the job and 10 days after Shawn went to the hospital he was placed in an iron lung That kept him alive during a n long critical critical critical cal period and he wasn't entirely independent of the big machine for fora a month Shawn will probably have to have an operation in a year or so 50 the medical student continued Hes made remarkable progress but those muscles will have to be restored He had the best of treatment thanks to the national foundation and when I get my MD M.D. Im I'm going t to try and find what causes polio and how we can lick it before it gets bets a chance Theres There's a alot lot of work to be done r |