Franklin D. Roosevelt and Warm Springs
Beginning in 1924, the 32nd U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had regularly spent some time at Warm Springs and died there in 1945. In 1921 he had developed flaccid paralysis of the upper and lower extremities, which was diagnosed as poliomyelitis. In the light of newer research, however, the disease was probably Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), which was scarcely known at the time. In 1927 Roosevelt founded the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, which today is known as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation and takes care of patients with handicaps of all kinds.
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