Polio Wars (42 page)

184.
Mary Kenny and Ethel Gardner were paid $200 per month for 2 months, $200 for additional compensation for time to travel, and all travel expenses; John was paid $750 per month and $750 for the time spent traveling. See Basil O'Connor to Dear Miss Kenny, February 5 1943, Government Relations (Foreign) Argentina, MOD; O'Connor to Dear Miss Gardner, February 5 1943, Government Relations (Foreign) Argentina, MOD; O'Connor to Dear Doctor John, February 23 1943, Government Relations (Foreign) Argentina, MOD.

185.
Rutherford John to Dear Dr. Gudakunst, March 19 1943, Government Relations (Foreign) Argentina, MOD.

186.
[Embassy, Norman Armour] to Secretary of State Subject: Visit of Kenny Mission for the Treatment of Infantile Paralysis, March 29 1943, Government Relations (Foreign) Argentina, MOD.

187.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, June 30 1943; Elisabeth Shirley Enochs [director, Inter-American Cooperation, Office of the Chief, U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau] to My Dear Dr. [Oscar L.] Miller, May 8 1943, Record Group 102, Children's Bureau, Central File, Box 102, 4-6-16—1, Infantile Paralysis, National Archives; H. Keniston to Secretary from State Memorandum: Proposed Visit of Dr. Oscar Lee Miller, June 14, 1943, Record Group 102, Children's Bureau, Central File, Box 102, 4-6-16—1, Infantile Paralysis, National Archives.

188.
Rutherford L. John to Dear Dr. Gudakunst, April 14 1943, Government Relations (Foreign), Argentina, MOD.

189.
Gudakunst to Dear Miss Kenny, May 10 1943, Dr. Don W. Gudakunst, 1941–1944, MHS-K.

190.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Gudakunst, May 11 1943, Dr. Don W. Gudakunst, 1941–1944, MHS-K.

191.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Gudakunst, May 24 1943, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941–1944, MHS-K; DWG to BO'C Memorandum Re Argentine, July 20 1943, Government Relations (Foreign), Argentina, MOD.

192.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Gudakunst, May 24 1943; Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, May 26 1943, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941–1944, MHS-K.

193.
Kenny to Dear Mary [McCarthy] July 5 1943, Mary McCarthy, 1942–1944, MHS-K.

194.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Gudakunst, May 24 1943.

195.
Rutherford John “Orthopedic Aspects of the Kenny Treatment,” [1943] Argentina, Misc., 1943–1945, 1949, MHS-K.

196.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Gudakunst, May 24 1943; Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, May 26 1943.

197.
Ibid.

198.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, May 26 1943; Kenny to American Consul, May 22 1943, Anibal Olaran Chans, 1943, MHS-K; Felipe Espil to Kenny, June 3 1943, Felipe A. Espil, 1943, MHS-K; Kenny to Anibal Olaran Chans, June 4 1943, Anibal Olaran Chans, 1943, MHS-K.

199.
Don Gudakunst to Kenny [telegram], June 4 1943, Argentina, Misc., 1943–1945, 1949, MHS-K; DWG to PJAC Memorandum Re: Kenny Problem—South America, February 9 1943; DWG to BO'C Memorandum re Argentine Situation, June 2 1943, Government Relations (Foreign), Argentina, MOD; Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, June 30 1943; “
we are convinced that the interests of those in Argentina affiliated with infantile paralysis will be best served by your returning immediately to this country pursuant to the plans under which you were sent to Argentina by the National Foundation … If however you elect to remain in Argentina we are certain you would be the first to wish to relieve the National Foundation of any responsibility in connection with your continued sojourn or your safe return to the United States.”

200.
Kenny to Mary Stewart Kenny [telegram], June 6 1943, Mary Stewart Kenny, 1942–1947, MHS-K; Anibal Olaran Chans to Sister Kenny May 31 1943, Anibal Olaran Chans, 1943, MHS-K; Kenny to Anibal Olaran Chans, June 1 1943, Anibal Olaran Chans, 1943, MHS-K; Kenny to Anibal Olaran Chans, July 1 1943, Anibal Olaran Chans, 1943, MHS-K.

201.
[Cohn interview with] Ethel Gardner, May 25 1955, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

202.
Kenny to Dear Mr. Henderson, June 25 1943, Cohn Papers, MHS-K.

203.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, June 21 1943, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941–1944, MHS-K.

204.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, June 30 1943.

205.
Diehl to Dear Sister Kenny, June 2 1943, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941–1944, MHS-K.

206.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Diehl, July 2 1943, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941-1944, MHS-K.

207.
Diehl to My Dear Sister Kenny, July 7 1943, Dr. Harold S. Diehl, 1941–1944, MHS-K.

208.
Kenny with Ostenso
And They Shall Walk
, 266.

209.
Kenny “Radio Talk Columbia Broadcasting System, WCCO–Minneapolis, August 18 1943”, Speeches (Radio) 1942–1945, MHS-K.

210.
Ethel Gardner to Dear Mr. O'Connor, August 16 1943, Government Relations (Foreign), Argentina, MOD.

211.
“U.S. Polio Foundation, Kenny Split” [
Minneapolis Star-Journal
] September [1943], Scrapbooks, 1945–1952 [sic], James Henry Papers, MHS-K.

212.
“Board Plans Review for Kenny Row” [
Minneapolis Star-Journal
] [1943], Scrapbooks, 1945–1952 [sic], Henry Papers, MHS.

213.
Howard W. Blakeslee [science editor, AP] “Whispering Campaign” [enclosed in] Blakeslee to Dear Mr. O'Connor, February 21 1944, Public Relations, MOD-K; Kenny to Gudakunst, May 11 1943 [enclosed in] Basil O'Connor to My Dear Mr. Michaels, February 15 1944, Public Relations, MOD-K.

214.
“Sister Kenny to Get House” [
Minneapolis Star-Journal
] [August 1943], Clippings, 1941–1946, MHS-K; Kenny to Dear Mary [McCarthy] July 5 1943; Kenny to Dear Mr. Bell, July 26 1943, James Ford Bell, 1942–1946, MHS-K.

215.
Minneapolis City Council “Resolution” April 9 1943, Minnesota-Misc., 1942–1945 MHS-K.

216.
Kenny with Ostenso
And They Shall Walk
, 267–268.

217.
Kenny “Data Concerning Introduction of Kenny Concept”; see also Helen G. Hoeflinger “The Ministering ‘Sister' ”
The Exchangite
(December 1943) 22: 8–9, 15.

218.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Gill, July 19 1943, Evidence Reports 1943–1952, MHS-K.

219.
Kenny to Dear Dr. Gill, July 24 1943, Dr. Bruce A. Gill, 1943, MHS-K.

220.
Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 4.

221.
Frank R. Ober “Foreword” in John F. Pohl and Elizabeth Kenny,
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
(Minneapolis: Bruce Publishing Co., 1943), 7–8.

222.
Basil O'Connor “A Statement” in Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 9–10. Pohl had privately thanked O'Connor for writing a foreword that he was sure would “lend authority to the work and encourage those who may have some reservations about Miss
Kenny's treatment”; John F. Pohl to Dear Mr. O'Connor, March 8 1943, Box 4, Basil O'Connor Papers, Manuscripts and Special Collections, New York State Archives.

223.
Chuter to Dear Sister Kenny, June 29 1943, Wilson Collection.

224.
Kenny, “Preface” in Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 11–13, 21–22, 25.

225.
Pohl “Introduction” in Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 33–38.

226.
Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 42–49, 51–55.

227.
Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 147, 151, 185. This claim had not been accepted by the London committee; see H. A. T. Fairbanks, Macdonald Critchley, E. I. Lloyd, C. Lambrinudi, R. C. Elmslie, George M. Gray, and Henry O. West “Infantile Paralysis and Cerebral Diplegia Clinic at Carshalton”
British Medical Journal
(October 22 1938) 2: 853.

228.
Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 83, 323.

229.
Pohl “Introduction” in Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 37–38.

230.
Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 313–314, 190, 44.

231.
Miland E. Knapp in “Discussion of Papers by Drs. John A. Toomey, Jessie Wright and Miland E. Knapp”
Archives of Physical Therapy
(November 1942) 23: 675, 679.

232.
Miland E. Knapp “Commentary” in Pohl and Kenny
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis
, 344–346, 347, 349, 352, 354.

233.
Howard A. Howe to Dear Mr. O'Connor, June 17 1943, Public Relations, MOD-K; Walter B. Cannon to Dear Mr. O'Connor, July 9 1943, Public Relations, MOD-K.

234.
Howe to Dear Mr. O'Connor, June 17 1943.

235.
On Cannon retiring from his position at Harvard medical school in 1942 and suffering from Bell's Palsy, deafness, and other signs of “failing health and rapid aging” see Elin L. Wolfe, A. Clifford Barger, and Saul Benison
Walter B. Cannon: Science and Society
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), 476–485, 503–514.

236.
Cannon to Dear Mr. O'Connor, July 9 1943.

237.
“Sister Kenny Exhibits Skill”
New York Journal-American
November 12 1943.

238.
J. D. Ratcliff “Minutemen Against Infantile Paralysis”
Colliers
(October 9 1943) 112: 18, 80–81.

239.
“Medicine and the War”
JAMA
(November 27 1943) 123 [abstract];
Physiotherapy Review
(1944) 24: 35.

240.
Editorial “Fact and Fancy in Poliomyelitis”
British Medical Journal
(July 31 1943) 2: 142.

241.
Richard Kovacs “[Review of]
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
”
American Journal of Public Health
(November 1943) 33: 1360–1361.

242.
Anon. “[Review of]
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
”
New England Journal of Medicine
(July 27 1944) 231: 167–168.

243.
[John Coulter] “[Review of]
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
”
Physiotherapy Review
(1943) 23: 139.

244.
Mary Macdonald “[Review of]
The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment
”
American Journal of Nursing
(July 1943) 43: 698.

245.
Phil Stewart to Dear Dr. Pohl, June 16 1943, Georgia–Misc., 1942–1944, MHS-K.

246.
William D. Sherwood to Dear Doctor Stimson, February 9 1944, Box 2, Folder 4, Correspondence Re Medical Talks, Stimson Papers.

247.
Samuel S. Sverdlik, Donald A. Covalt, and Howard A. Rusk “Fifty Years of Progress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York State”
New York State Journal of Medicine
(January 1 1951) 51: 90–95.

248.
Disraeli Kobak [Editorial] “The 1941 Session in Historic Washington”
Archives of Physical Therapy
(September 1941) 22: 553.

249.
“Amputations Without Shock Declared Achieved by Chilling”
Los Angeles Times
September 12 1942; Kenny and Ostenso
And They Shall Walk
, 257.

250.
Fred B. Moor to Dear Sister Kenny [September 1942] quoted in Kenny with Ostenso
And They Shall Walk
, 257–258.

251.
Kenny to Dear Mrs. Webber, April 6 1942, Mrs. Charles C. Webber, 1941–1951, MHS-K; Kenny to Dear Mrs. Webber, February 27 1942, Mrs. Charles C. Webber, 1941–1951, MHS-K.

252.
Glenn Gritzer and Arnold Arluke
The Making of Rehabilitation: A Political Economy of Medical Specialization
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), 90.

253.
Miller “Sister Kenny vs. The Medical Old Guard,” 41; see also Kenny to Dear Dr. Bennett, March 10 1942.

254.
Robert L. Bennett “Recent Developments in the Treatment of Poliomyelitis”
Southern Medical Journal
(February 1943) [abstract] in
Physiotherapy Review
(1943) 23: 81; see also Bennett “The Influence of the Kenny Concept of Acute Poliomyelitis on the Physical Treatment Through All Stages of the Disease”
Archives of Physical Therapy
(August 1943) 24: 453–460 [abstract] in
Physiotherapy Review
(1943) 23: 222.

255.
Bennett “Discussion of Papers,” 673.

256.
William S. Clark to Dear Dr. Pohl, June 23 1943, Ohio-Misc., 1941–1945, MHS-K.

257.
Paul C. Carson to Dear Dr. Knapp, July 14 1943, [accessed in 1992 before recent re-cataloging], Am 15.8, Folder 1, UMN-ASC.

258.
Walter S. McClellan “Physical Medicine”
New York State Journal of Medicine
(1945) 45: 1426–1428.

259.
“Baruch Committee on Physical Medicine”
Physiotherapy Review
(1944) 24: 110–112. Kenny later wrote to Baruch about “a very important International matter before you” but was unable to get an appointment to see him. He replied that “I am not in a position now to do anything more than what I am doing in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation,” adding “I am quite aware of the fine work you are doing”; Kenny to Dear Mr. Baruch, January 30 1950, General Correspondence-B, MHS-K; Bernard M. Baruch to Dear Sister Kenny, January 31 1950, General Correspondence-B, MHS-K. On Baruch see also Margaret L. Coit
Mr. Baruch
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1957); William Lindsay White
Bernard Baruch: Portrait of a Citizen
(New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950); Jordan A. Schwartz
The Speculator: Bernard M. Baruch in Washington, 1917–1965
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1981); James L. Grant
Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend
(New York: Wiley, 1997). See also “People”
Time
(May 1 1944) 43: 42.
Time
noted that most of the gift would be going to medical schools at Columbia, New York University, and the Medical College of Virginia.