Elizabeth Kenny Quotes
I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
Kenny, Elizabeth, and Martha Ostenso. And They Shall Walk: The Life Story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny. Dodd, Mead, 1943.
He escaped and inspired a revolution that ousted his persecutor.
To the oft-repeated question, "Are you serious about the presidency?" Carter had a standard answer:
The Germans had great respect for Hoover’s work feeding the hungry of Europe.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny was a self-trained Australian bush nurse who developed a new approach for treating victims of poliomyelitis, which was controversial at the time. Her method, which she promoted internationally while working in Australia, Europe and the United States, differed from the then conventional medical practice which called for placing affected limbs in plaster casts. Instead Kenny applied hot compresses to affected parts of patients' bodies followed by passive movement of those areas to reduce what she called "Spasm". Kenny's principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, or physiotherapy.
