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A young girl, parayzed by polio, gazes out from her iron lung.  In the foreground are the elaborate leg braces worn by those whom the disease  crippled less severely.
A young girl, parayzed by polio, gazes out from her iron lung. In the foreground are the elaborate leg braces worn by those whom the disease crippled less severely.
(March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)

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