Medicine: Vaccine for Adults

President Eisenhower last week backed up Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom in a plea for prompt use of the 17 million doses of polio vaccine now stockpiled by manufacturers, plus untold millions in drugstore and health-department refrigerators. Targets: children who have had less than the recommended three shots, and adults, who are in time to get three shots before midsummer if they act promptly.

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