Both Uses of
polio
in
The Lords of Discipline
- Now, Colonel, when Mr. Jones was a young man he contracted polio of the face and had to wear a brace on his nose and upper lip for the first five years of his life.†
Chpt 3.30 *polio = viral disease that causes muscle paralysis
- The whole place looks like it caught polio, then killed Doctor Salk.†
Chpt 4.35
Definition:
a viral disease that can cause paralysis and sometimes death