| SCIENCE ASSISTS CRIPPLED CHILDREN Infantile Paralysis sufferers learn to use feet instead of hands and are put in iron lungs. | ||
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| Catalog #: | 262545 | |
| Clip Number: | 262545-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 42/5 | |
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| Location: | Victoria, Australia | |
| Year Shot: | 1942 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Misc. HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Hospitals LOCATIONS/AUSTRALIA: Victoria OCCUPATIONS: Medical, Nurses | |
| Description: | MISSING 8/3/2004 SCIENCE ASSISTS CRIPPLED CHILDREN Infantile Paralysis sufferers learn to use feet instead of hands and are put in iron lungs. Victoria, Australia. Various shots of children suffering from Infantile Paralysis in the hospital. Nurses help children who have lost the use of their arms to paint by holding a paintbrush between their toes. A little girl lies on a bed and feeds herself from a bowl by using her toes to hold a spoon. Children are put into iron lungs. M/S of a line of children in the contraptions. We see the workings of the respirators. A nurse turns the pages of a comic so that a boy can read the funnies while in an iron lung. A small boy called Arthur Cogdale walks along slowly, holding onto some parallel bars. He is learning to walk again and will soon leave the hospital cured. | |
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