In 1954, construction began on the Sellers Wing, which was a physical therapy building used to house polio patients.

That operation had been performed on polio patients.

They meet a different doctor , who has a good track record of curing polio patients.

Many paralyzed polio patients lay in plaster body casts for months at a time.

For much of its existence, the institute was the only such facility "exclusively devoted" to polio patients.

A polio patient with paralyzed lungs could spend up to a week inside an iron lung.

The Rancho rapidly expanded after it was designated as a respiratory center for polio patients in 1951.

The layout was designed for polio patients in iron lungs.

In its first half-century, Warm Springs treated 2,000 polio patients a year.

Even at Warm Springs, the influx of polio patients was bad for business.