BIO: Elizabeth KENNY (1886-1952), an Australian nurse, developed a special method of treating poliomyelitis. She became a nurse in the "bush" (frontier) country of Australia. One day an epidemic of poliomyelitis struck, and Miss Kenny could not get medical help. This led her to work out her own method of treating the victims. She found that prompt application of hot woolen packs relieved muscle spasms and often kept the patient from becoming crippled. Sister Kenny, as she was called after she became a head nurse, served as a nurse in the Australian Army during World War I. In 1933, she set up her own clinic in Townsville (Queensland). Her treatment was accepted for use in Australian hospitals by 1939. She lectured and demonstrated the method in the United States in 1940, and secured funds to set up the Elizabeth Kenny Institute in Minneapolis, MN. Elizabeth Kenny was born on Sept. 20, 1886, in Warrialda, NSW and wrote many treatises dealing with polio, and an autobiography, "And They Shall Walk" (1943)