Tommy

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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The story of Tommy, the "boy next door." After a day of baseball he complains of a lack of hunger and tiredness. He is treated at the Kenny Polio Institute in a youth ward. Also description of the Kenny method - passive movement of all muscles.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 69704
Municipal archives id: LT722

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