HEATHER GREEN WOOTEN 

   WAS OUR SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR In November

THE POLIO YEARS IN TEXAS

From the 1930s to the 1950s, the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio) threatened lives in the United States, especially in the South. Houston and Harris County, Texas had the second-highest rate of infection in the nation, and the rest of the Texas Gulf was particularly hard-hit.     

"An engaging . . . piece of social history of medicine"

— Barbara Gastel, Professor   ;   Department of Humanities in Medicine,Texas A&M Health Science Center