Armstrong – Table of Contents

States Public Health Service, moreover, detailed a medical officer [C.A. or W.T.H.?], who was familiar with the details of the e ...

children into physicians’ offices, the spraying should be carried out in the open. The local authorities, through the extensive ...

The people were taking the spraying program into their own hands, and the study soon became a shambles. Paul DeKruif, by virtue ...

Armstrong felt that the spraying as applied, usually to children, was inefficient due to inadequate delivery into the nasal cavi ...

Additional attempts occurred utilizing sprays to prevent poliomyelitis. With additional funding from the President’s Birthday Ba ...

to carry out a well-controlled spraying program in time to avert epidemics of poliomyelitis. No further serious attempts materia ...

Armstrong’s continuing involvement with investigations in poliomyelitis was associated with his inclusion in the Committee on Sc ...

exit of the virus. 3) Purification and concentration of the virus. 4) What is to be called poliomyelitis? 5) Mode of transmissio ...

When he received the Lansing brain and spinal cord material in August 1937, Armstrong sought previously unused rodent species in ...

groups. He reasoned that a strain of virus adapted to the cotton rat might be pathogenic for other rodent species; he, therefore ...

He reported (26) the testing of a group of 293 serums, mostly by his associate Dr. Victor H. Haas. This group of 293 serums was ...

non-neural tissue in tissue culture. After coaxing the Lansing strain to grow in this medium, they were able also to adapt monke ...

years before I got back to them [EAB – He was still working with lymphocytic chorimeningitis.]. Finally, I tried again, and, sur ...

from Basil O’Connor (31) thanking him for his tireless service on behalf of the National Foundation. “You have served on the Nat ...

Medical Advisory Meeting, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Hot Springs,^ Virginia, April 1949. Courtesy of Mary Emma ...

endemic form in non-primate hosts such as rodents. The diagnostic criteria that the Committee recommended for identifying and de ...

the term for these strains he had used originally, “spontaneous mouse encephalomyelitis.” There were other mouse viruses includi ...

On January 2 and 3, 1958, Charles Armstrong was inducted into “The Polio Hall of Fame” (36) at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundati ...

chaired by Mr. O’Connor, featured Mrs. Roosevelt who introduced the main speaker, Dr. Jonas E. Salk. The title of his talk was “ ...

Clay model of Dr. Charles Armstrong’s head for the Polio Hall of Fame, late 1957.^ Courtesy of March of Dimes. ...