Episode of Series “The Twentieth century”.
The history of polio and its treatment and the discovery of the Salk vaccine. Old newsreels show the late President Roosevelt in the early stages of treatment at the Georgia Retreat, and Sister Kenny at work. Some of the medical men who have worked on the disease and the final triumph by Dr. Jonas E. Salk.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
011502
Language
English
Subject categories
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Newsreels - United States
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Medicine - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Causes and theories of causation
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Prevention
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Research
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical personnel
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical technology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Research
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Study and teaching
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine, Preventive
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Poliomyelitis
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Poliomyelitis - History - 20th century
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Poliomyelitis vaccine
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Salk vaccine
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Vaccines
History → Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Discoveries (in science)
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Medical technology
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Salk vaccine
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Science - History
People → Kenny, Elizabeth, 1886-1952
People → Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)