It is very easy to get polio. Patrick Cockburn was six when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City. He caught the disease and was taken to the fever hospital where, alone for the first time in his life, he was kept in isolation. The virus attacks the nerves of the brain and the spinal cord leading to paralysis of ...
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It is very easy to get polio. Patrick Cockburn was six when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City. He caught the disease and was taken to the fever hospital where, alone for the first time in his life, he was kept in isolation. The virus attacks the nerves of the brain and the spinal cord leading to paralysis of the muscles. Patrick could no longer walk. The Broken Boy is at once a memoir of Patrick Cockburn's own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, both prominent radicals, and the story of the Cork epidemic, the last great polio epidemic in the world, affecting 50,000 people. This terrible disease always behaved strangely, attacking the middle classes rather than the poor, children rather than adults, and striking fear everywhere.
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Very Good. Patrick Cockburn's parents had returned to Ireland, unaware of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City. At six, Patrick caught the disease. This is a memoir of Patrick Cockburn's own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, and the story of the Cork epidemic, a great polio epidemic in the world. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks. Small stain to bottom page edge, remains very good. 2006. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Physical description: 312 pages (including index pages 303-312). Subjects: Cockburn, Patrick 1950-childhood and youth. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. Coping with illness & specific conditions. Postwar 20th century history. Autobiography: general Poliomyelitis Patients Ireland Cork; Biography. Authors, Irish 20th century; Biography. Epidemics Ireland Cork History 20th century. Genre: Autobiography. An exceptional paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, with photo illustrations.
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