On this date 100 years ago, 39-year-old New York politician and lawyer Franklin Delano Roosevelt felt the first symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as infantile paralysis — otherwise known as ...
Virus and host. Infection ; Symptoms ; Diagnosis ; "To keep up his courage" -- "He's through." "The psychological factor is paramount" ; "Perfectly definite in my determination" ; "A tower of blocks" ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The March of Dimes was founded by President Roosevelt in 1938 in order to fund the development of a cure for polio - a disease he had himself.
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Curator Herman Eberhardt gave a tour of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum discussed the effect that polio had on FDR's life ...