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MY six-year-old son had his polio shot . . . and seven days later, he got sick," Mrs. R. M. Adams of Puenten, Calif, wrote to us. She added an hour-by-hour report on her son's symptoms and made a fervent appeal for advice about polio vaccine. "I'm writing to you because TIME is the only place we were able to get any good information." Other worried mothers, we have heard, were told by family physicians: "You can get as much information as I have by reading TIME's MEDICINE section." Last week at the American Medical Association convention in...
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