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Elizabeth Kenny — the girl whose unlikely treatment helped people with polio

Fierce Girls

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Elizabeth Kenny's Journey to Help Polio Patients

In this chapter, Elizabeth Kenny challenges traditional medical treatments for polio and develops her own method to bring relief to patients. Despite facing criticism, she starts her own hospital and later sells it to join the war effort.

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