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There is No Cure for Polio
A photograph of polio patients watching President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession, April 1945.

A photograph of polio patients watching President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession, April 1945.

President Roosevelt used the therapeutic waters of the warm springs in Warm Springs, Georgia and visited annually.

Citation Information
“Photograph of polio patients watching as Franklin Roosevelt's body leaves Warm Springs, Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia, 1945 Apr. 13,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/2c54e4b3c0f23fa425be5361e3d620de.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives via Digital Library of Georgia.

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Item 2 of 11 in the Primary Source Set There is No Cure for Polio

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A 1934 photograph of patients at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation holding a giant card for President Roosevelt as part of a fundraiser.
A photograph of polio patients watching President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession, April 1945.
A photograph of Fredrick Goodall, aged six, doing leg exercises with his nurse. Goodall contracted polio during a 1930s epidemic.
The syringe and vial used to test the Salk polio vaccine on children who already had polio, 1952.
A news film of an unidentified man interviewed about the distribution of an oral polio vaccine, 1961.
An excerpt from an 1867 publication by Dr. Charles Fayette Taylor called Infantile Paralysis, and Its Attendant Deformities.
A news film of Dr. Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine, commenting on the vaccine in 1961.
A photograph of a 1939 World’s Fair exhibit on infantile paralysis.
A 1940s photograph of a child in an iron lung, used to treat polio patients that could not breathe on their own due to paralysis.
A photograph of a man with a sign to raise money for the March of Dimes Foundation to help prevent “birth defects, arthritis, and polio.”
An excerpt from a 1916 pamphlet on infantile paralysis delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine by Dr. Simon Flexner.

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