Vaccination against Paralytic Poliomyelitis: Performance and Prospects. From Virus Research Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. Presented on 12 April, 1955, University of Michigan. SIGNED BY JONAS SALK
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Seller: Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.Scientia Books, ABAA ILAB
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2 leaves, 16 numbered leaves, 21 unnumbered leaves (printed on rectos only). Original printed wrappers, spiral-bound inside the wrappers. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY JONAS SALK (on the title page, dated 1979). On April 12, 1955, at the University of Michigan, Thomas Francis, Jr., announced the results of a large, national, year-long field trial of the effectiveness of Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine. On the same day, Salk presented his own report on the vaccine, offered here. Salk had conducted his own small-scale field trials in 1952, and in 1953 had published his first report on the effectiveness of the vaccine (Garrison-Morton 4672.2). "Francis announced the results of the national trial on 12 April 1955 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in front of television and movie cameras, 150 reporters, and hundreds of doctors and scientists. The vaccine, he said, was effective, powerful, and safe. A wave of joy swept the nation. Shoppers in stores listened to the Francis speech over radio loudspeakers; church bells were rung. On 23 April, President Dwight Eisenhower gave Salk a citation 'for his extraordinary achievement' in the White House Rose Garden" (article on Jonas Salk in ANB = American National Biography). For a full, scholarly account of the Salk vaccine and the field trials, see John R. Paul, A History of Poliomyelitis, chapters 39-40.…
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- Title
- Vaccination against Paralytic Poliomyelitis: Performance and Prospects. From Virus Research Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. Presented on 12 April, 1955, University of Michigan. SIGNED BY JONAS SALK
- Author
- SALK, Jonas
- Publisher
- 1955.
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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