Posts tagged: Medical Marvels

FDR is a gray-haired man in sensible suit with a striped tie. He has a slight smile on his face.

FDR Probably Got Polio at a Boy Scout Jamboree

You learn something new every day, and today we learned how future president Franklin D. Roosevelt got polio at age 39. Or how he probably got it: from the Boy …..

Will Robert Wadlow Always Be the World’s Tallest Man?

Will anyone ever be taller than Robert Wadlow? The small-town boy from Illinois was a whopping 8’11” tall — that’s right: eight feet, eleven inches — when he died in …..