A Cure Freely Given
On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium and delivered the words millions of...
This is a contemporary on hope and healing, drawing on Jeremiah 33:6.
On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium and delivered the words millions of parents had been desperate to hear: the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective, and potent." After years of summer dread — when swimming pools closed, movie theaters emptied, and parents watched their children's legs for the first signs of weakness — a remedy had finally come.…
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