1921

FDR, vacationing on island of Campobello, off coast of Maine, contracts polio (Gould, 29ff), initially misdiagnosed by W. W. Keen, whose prescription of heavy massage may have done “considerable harm” to FDR’s chances of recovery (32). Shortly thereafter, Robert Lovett, professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard and author of The Treatment of Infantile Paralysis, arrived at Campobello and made the correct diagnosis and appropriate course of rehabilitation (Oshinsky II, 42-43).