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Citations for general articles on polio

  • "First Recorded Polio Epidemic." Pediatrics. Vol. 116, Issue 6, (December 2005) page 1308.
  • Fischman, Josh. "Pushing Back Polio." U.S. News & World Report. Vol. 138, Issue 14, (April 18, 2005) pages 44-45.
  • "Lack of Vaccinations Linked to Polio, Measles Outbreaks." Nation's Health. Vol. 35, Issue 10, (December 2005) page 11.
  • MacKenzie, Debora. "Eradicating Polio Leaves People Defenseless." New Scientist. Vol. 191, Issue 2562, (July 29, 2006) page 8.
  • McNeil, Donald G. "To Conquer, or Control--Disease Strategy Debated." New York Times. Vol. 155, Issue 53524, (March 20, 2006) Page A13.
  • Mitka, Mike. "Aging Brings New Challenges for Polio Survivors." JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 296, Issue 14, (October 11, 2006) pages 1718-1719.
  • Monmaney, Terence. "Mission Impossible?" Smithsonian. Vol. 33, Number 11, (February 2003) pages 52-60.
  • Robbins, Frederick C. "The Quest for a Vaccine." World Health. (January/February 1995) pages 114-115.
  • Roberts, Leslie. "Polio Experts Strive to Understand a Puzzling Outbreak." Science. Vol. 312, Issue 5780, (June 16, 2006) page 1581.


Citations for articles on Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin

  • "Albert Sabin." U.S. News & World Report. Vol. 114, Issue 10, (March 15, 1993) page 18.
  • Bendiner, E. "Salk: adulation, animosity, and achievement." Hospital Practice (Off Ed). Vol. 18, Issue 6, (June 1983) pages 194-196, 200-201, 204-205 passim.
  • Katz, S.L. "From culture to vaccine--Salk and Sabin." New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 351, Issue 15, (October 7, 2004) pages 1485-1487.
  • Markel, Howard.  "April 12, 1955--Tommy Francis and the Salk Vaccine."  New England Journal of Medicine.  Vol. 352, Issue 14 (April 7, 2005) pages 1408-1410.
  • "Obituary: Dr. Jonas Salk, 1914-1995." Time. Vol. 146, Number 1, (July 3, 1995) page 59.
  • Pearce, J.M.S. "Historical Note: Salk and Sabin: Poliomyelitis Immunization." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Vol. 75, Issue 11, (November 2004) page 1552. (Free online article at www.PubMed.org)
  • Shampo, M.A. and R.A. Kyle. "Jonas E. Salk--Discoverer of a Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis."
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Vol. 73, Issue 12, (December 1998) page 1176
  • Sheed, Wilfrid. "Jonas Salk." Time. Vol. 153, Issue 12, (March 29, 1999) page 168-170.


Citations for articles on the iron lung

  • Drinker, P.A. and C.F. McKhann. "Landmark perspective: The iron lung. First practical means of respiratory support." JAMA. Vol. 255, Issue 11, (March 21, 1986) pages 1476-1480.
  • Drinker, P.A. and C.F. McKhann. "Landmark article May 18, 1929: The use of a new apparatus for the prolonged administration of artificial respiration. A fatal case of poliomyelitis." JAMA. Vol. 255, Issue 11, (March 21, 1986) pages 1473-1475.
  • Markel, H. "The Genesis of the Iron Lung. Early Attempts at Administering Artificial
  • Respiration to Patients with Poliomyelitis." Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Vol. 148, Issue 11, (November 1994) pages 1174-1180.
  • Maxwell, J.H. "The Iron Lung: Halfway Technology or Necessary Step?" Milbank Quarterly. Vol. 64, Issue 1, (1986) pages 3-33.
  • Meyer, J.A. "A Practical Mechanical Respirator, 1929: the 'Iron Lung'". Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Vol. 50, Issue 3, (September 1990) pages 490-493.
  • Raymond, C.A. "Polio survivors spurred rehabilitation advances." JAMA. Vol. 255, Issue 11, (March 21, 1986) pages 1403-1404.


Citations for articles on Sister Kenny

  • Cohn, Victor. "Sister Kenny's fierce fight for better polio care: she was obstinate and not open about her own background, but she nevertheless was responsible for a revolution in medicine." Smithsonian. Vol. 12, Issue 8, (November 1981) pages 180-200.
  • Dyson, James E. "The Kenny Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in the Acute Stage."
  • Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 32, Issue 7, (July 1942) pages 297-298.
  • Dyson, James E. "The Kenny Treatment in Acute Poliomyelitis: A Report of the First Year at the Iowa Lutheran Kenny Cottages." Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 33, Issue 8, (August 1943) pages 375-379.
  • Kendall, Florence P. "Sister Elizabeth Kenny revisited." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Vol. 79, Issue 4, (April 1998) pages: 361-365.
  • "Kenny Concepts of Muscle Dysfunction In Poliomyelitis Disputed." Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 33, Issue 11, (November 1943) pages 520-521. (Refers to article in JAMA. Vol. 123 (September 25, 1943) pages188-192 by A.L.Watkins, M.A.B. Brazier and R.S. Schwab entitled "Concepts of Muscle Dysfunction in Poliomyelitis Based on Electromyographic Studies.")
  • "Kenny Principles Applicable to Conditions Other Than Poliomyelitis." Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 42, Issue 12, (December 1942) page 555.
  • "The Kenny Treatment of Poliomyelitis Patients." Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 42, Issue 7, (July 1942) page 303.
  • Knapp, M.E., L. Sher, and T.S. Smith. "Results of Kenny treatment of acute poliomyelitis: present status of three hundred ninety-one patients treated between 1940 and 1945." JAMA. Vol. 151, Issue 2, (January 10, 1953) pages 117-120.
  • McKinley, J.C. et al. "The Present Status of Poliomyelitis Management." (Miss Kenny) Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 34, Issue 9, (September 1944) pages 407-408.
  • "Orthopedists Present Report Evaluating Kenny Treatment." Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 34, Issue 70, (July 1944) pages 283-284.
  • "Principles of the Kenny Treatment." Journal of the Iowa State Medical Society. Vol. 42, Issue 9, (September 1942) pages 430-432.
  • Swaim, M.W. "A dogma upended from down under. Sister Elizabeth Kenny's polio treatment." North Carolina Medical Journal. Vol. 59, Issue 4, (July-August 1998) pages 256-260.


Citations for articles on vaccines

  • Alexander, E.R. "Landmark perspective: Inactivated poliomyelitis vaccination. Issues reconsidered." JAMA. Vol. 251, Issue 20, (May 25, 1984) pages 2710-2712.
  • Horstmann, D.M. "The poliomyelitis story: a scientific hegira." Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. Vol. 58, Issue 2, (March-April 1985) pages 79-90.
  • Markel, H. "April 12, 1955--Tommy Francis and the Salk vaccine." New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 352, Issue 14, (April 7, 2005) pages 1408-1410.
  • Meldrum, M.L. "The Historical Feud Over Polio Vaccine: How Could a Killed Vaccine Contain a Natural Disease?" Western Journal of Medicine. Vol. 171, Issue 4, (October 1999) pages 271-273.
  • Mitka, M. "Happy 50th birthday, Salk vaccine." JAMA. Vol. 293, Issue 13, (April 6, 2005) pages 1581-1583.
  • Nathanson, N. and A.D. Langmuir. "The Cutter incident. Poliomyelitis following formaldehyde-inactivated poliovirus vaccination in the United States during the spring of 1955. II. Relationship of poliomyelitis to Cutter vaccine. 1963." American Journal of Epidemiology. Vol. 142, Issue 2, (July 15, 1995) pages 109-140; discussion 107-108.
  • Offit, P.A. "The Cutter incident, 50 years later." New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 352, Issue 14, (April 7, 2005) pages 1411-1412.
  • Perdue, T.R. and J.C. Malcolm. "Poliomyelitis vaccine: a report on field trials in Southern Alameda County in 1954." California Medicine. Vol. 83, Issue 3, (September 1955) pages 233-236. (Available free online through PubMed at www.PubMed.gov)