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Jonas Salk transformed the world he came into. He made the world a better place to live in and made everyone feel safer. In 1914, the year Salk was born, several events were going on in the world. World War I began, the United States intervened in Mexico, the Clayton Antitrust Act passed, the Federal Trade Comisson was established, and the Panama Canal opened. Also, in sports, Austrilia won the Davis Cup tennis championship from the United States, the Yale Bowl opened, and, in baseball, the Boston Braves defeated the Philadelphia A's 4-0 to win the World Series. In Science, one of the subjects in which Salk changed, there were things discovered, "first's" happened, books published, and of course, a Nobel Prize awarded. J.H. Jeans published "Radiation and the Quantun Theory", Fertilization through peat was discovered by Bottomley, Robert H. Goddard began his rocketry expirments, a treatment for thyroid deficiencies was prepared by E.C. Kendall,Dr. Alexis Carrel performed the first successful heart surgery on a dog , and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awared to Theodore W. Richards for determinations of the atomic weight of numerous chemical elements. Also, poliomyelitis, called polio, a virus that caused paralysis most of the time, terrorized many parents. Parents feared the possibility that their child could catch the crippling disease. However, on April 12, 1955, parents could breathe easier: a vaccine was released thanks to Jonas Salk. He saved thousands of lives. He was "The Man Who Saved The Children" (Sheed). When he was born into the world, a disease exsited that paraylized millions of innocent childern and when he left the world, the disease that crippled so many childern was nearly eradicated and he could truly say he made the world a better place.
Scientists of the Time Jonas Salk Jonas Salk was born in New York City. ... Jonas Salk was the first member of his family to go to college. ... Jonas Salk had developed a vaccine against the disease. Salk became world-famous overnight, but his discovery was the result of many years of what seemed to be endless research. ...
Poliomyelitis, better known as polio or infantile paralysis, is the infectious viral disease that sometimes results in paralysis. Polio was a big cause of death of children and many elderly adults in the 20th century. Over 100,000 people have been affected with polio since the 20th century, and a ne...
Jonas Edward Salk, an American research scientist, worked in the field of preventive medicine. ... It was in the year of 1953 when Salk announced the development of a trial vaccine. Among the first to receive the vaccine were Salk, his wife, and their three sons. ... The headlines screamed "SALK'S VACCINE WORKS!" ... Suddenly, on April 25, 1955, the Salk vaccine jubilation was crushed when the report of 205 cases of polio associated with the vaccine was reported from Cutter Laboratories in California. 79 people were vaccinated children and the others had become infected with the dise...
Jonas Edward Salk, an American research scientist, worked in the field of preventive medicine. ... It was in the year of 1953 when Salk announced the development of a trial vaccine (Davis ##-##). Among the first to receive the vaccine were Salk, his wife, and their three sons. ... The headlines screamed "SALK'S VACCINE WORKS!" ... Suddenly, on April 25, 1955, the Salk vaccine jubilation was crushed when the report of 205 cases of polio associated with the vaccine was reported from Cutter Laboratories in California. 79 people were vaccinated children and the others had become infected...
In Kathryn Black's touching memorial, In the Shadow of Polio, she mentions numerous times the use of an iron lung as a life savor for many Bulbar Polio patients. As I continued to read through her touching story, I became both fascinated by the state of the art technology and motivated to do more r...
Explain how Public Health developed during 1850-1950 In 1848 the public health act was bought into action. The 1848 act brought only limited improvements. Under the act, local health boards were set up in only 182 towns. As a result, sewage disposal and water supplies were improved in some of th...
Socially, economically and, politically, the 1950's were the "happy days." The 1950's were marked with many historical events, positive and negative. The decade had its downfalls, but they were nothing compared to the improvement of life in all aspects. The economy was boomin...