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Excerpt from: "Warm Springs" The Fight Against Infantile "Warm Springs," which has become the public description of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, means something entirely different than what its name implies. It is not a general "cripples" hospital; it is not a spa using its warm waters as a so-called "cure"; it is not a mecca to which everyone who turns can be admitted. It is something far and beyond that. It has become embedded in the public heart and mind as the symbol of a great man's determination to do his part towards getting rid of something which has afflicted American humanity.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | "Warm Springs" The Fight Against Infantile | |
| Creator: | Keith Morgan (author) | |
| Date: | January 30, 1937 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | The President's Birthday Magazine | |
| Publisher: | National Committee for the Birthday Ball for the President to Fight Infantile Paralysis | |
| Source: | Franklin D. Roosevelt Library | |
| Control no.: | RJ 496 P2 P7 1937 | |
| Location: | pp.13, 38 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Assistive Technology; Birthday Balls; Braces; Charity; Children; Cripple; Crutch; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Fundraising; Georgia; Henry L. Doherty; Hydrotherapy; Institutions; Keith Morgan; Medical Professionals; Medicine; National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis; Physical Disability; Physical Therapy; Polio; Public Health Service; Rehabilitation; Service Organizations; Spa; Treatments Therapies Cures; Warm Springs Foundation; Wheelchair | |
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| Funding Support Provided By: | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
