Show TEST TUBE vs POLIO I For generations polio was accepted accept accept- ed as one of the mystery diseases of mankind an elusive destroyer and crippler striking unpredictably with epidemic force Today medical medical medi medi- cal science knows a great deal about polio The mystery phase is past The period of exploration discovery and eventual conquest is I well under way With funds provided by the March of Dimes the nations nation's top scientists are h hard rd at work in hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital and university laboratories laboratorieS' I exploring every reasonable approach that may lead to the ultimate control control control con con- of polio epidemics and conquest conquest conquest con con- quest of the disease as an individual individual individual dual affliction The recent discovery that polio poliovirus poliovirus poliovirus virus could be grown in test tubes using non-nervous non tissue as the culture medium has hs been acclaimed acclaim acclaim- ed as a 3 new milestone in polio re re- re search It has greatly widened the field for the research scientists in their efforts to find a vaccine drug I or serum effective a against infantile paralysis In its thirteen years of existence the National Foundation for Infantile Infantile Infantile tile Paralysis has authorized the expenditure of in March MarchI of Dimes funds for research Of OJ this amount has been granted in the field of virus re research research research re- re search while has been allocated to study of prevention and treatment of the diseases disease's crippling after There is a sound basis for the hope that some day polio will be controlled or wiped out by science through the March of Dimes 1 |