Kenny R.E.H.A.B. Records 1945-1997 1950-1964

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Kenny R.E.H.A.B. Records 1945-1997 1950-1964

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Detroit-area chapter (est. 1946) of organization founded to provide the Kenny method treatment for neuromuscular diseases. Records include administrative files of the Detroit Chapter of the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation; collected information pertaining to the Minneapolis headquarters of the Foundation and about Sister Kenny; informational publications; scrapbooks containing clippings and scattered photographs; and slides of 40th anniversary programs in 1986.

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Bentley Historical Library

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Kenny R.E.H.A.B.

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During the early 1900s, Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian missionary nurse, pioneered and developed the Kenny method for the treatment for infantile paralysis. Her treatment proved to be more successful than any other then being offered. News of its success spread, leading the Australian government to open clinics in Melbourne and Brisbane. In 1940 Sister Kenny came to the United States to present her treatments to medical doctors at New York University. Her presentations w...

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Kenny, Elizabeth, 1886-1952

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Elizabeth Kenny, the daughter of Michael and Mary Kenny, was born September 20, 1886 in New South Wales, Australia. At 16 she graduated from St. Ursula's College, Queensland, Australia. She received her nursing training at a private hospital and served as a nurse in the Australian bush country from 1911 to 1914. It was during this period that she encountered her first case of infantile paralysis (1909) and developed her treatment for the disease. During World War I Kenny served as a...

Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation

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