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His main symptoms were fevers; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis and underwent years of therapy, including hydrotherapy at Warm Springs, Georgia.
Mar 17, 2023 · While Roosevelt’s polio was no secret during his successful 1928 campaign for governor of New York, he carefully cloaked his disability in public. The press agreed not to photograph or film him...
Aug 2, 2021 · A century ago, polio struck a handsome young politician — and forged one of the country’s greatest presidents. In August 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken and transformed by a ...
Nov 25, 2013 · Roosevelt contracted polio at the age of 39, and Tobin's new book explores his battle with the illness and the ways it molded his character and influenced his rise in the Democratic Party.
Jan 3, 2013 · Franklin Roosevelt ’s crusade to defeat polio actually began more than 10 years before he created the group that would become known as the March of Dimes. His first efforts centered on a...
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Mar 22, 2024 · Two themes emerged among these early retellings of his experience with polio and paralysis—that FDR "conquered" disability, or that his personal struggle with it made him especially attuned to the nation's suffering during the Great Depression.
Aug 2, 2021 · On the morning of Aug. 11, 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt got out of bed and tried to make it to the bathroom in the summer house on Campobello Island, off the coast of Maine, where he and his...
