Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Polio Experiment--Patricia Ann Burnett, five-year-old daughter of Dr. Matthew Burnett of Houston, Tex., polio advisor to the Harris County Polio Association, received first shot in experiment to fight paralysis from polio with gamma globulin, a blood faction in a mass inoculation of children one to six in polio plagued Houston. Dr. Byron York administers the shot.
Polio Experiment--Patricia Ann Burnett, five-year-old daughter of Dr. Matthew Burnett of Houston, Tex., polio advisor to the Harris County Polio Association, received first shot in experiment to fight paralysis from polio with gamma globulin, a blood faction in a mass inoculation of children one to six in polio plagued Houston. Dr. Byron York administers the shot.
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Polio Experiment--Patricia Ann Burnett, five-year-old daughter of Dr. Matthew Burnett of Houston, Tex., polio advisor to the Harris County Polio Association, received first shot in experiment to fight paralysis from polio with gamma globulin, a blood faction in a mass inoculation of children one to six in polio plagued Houston. Dr. Byron York administers the shot.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1952]

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