Elizabeth Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny
Elizabeth Kennywas an unaccredited Australian nurse who promoted a controversial new approach to the treatment of poliomyelitis. Her findings ran counter to conventional medical wisdom; they demonstrated the need to exercise muscles affected by polio instead of immobilising them. Kenny's principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, or physiotherapy...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 September 1886
CityWarialda, Australia
CountryAustralia
I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
Incest is one of the forms of nastiness in the show. Really, all forms of contemporary evil are there, including violence and exploitation. This is not a cute puppet show for children. Parents might consider bringing kids 16 and up.
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, "Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.
I play the Demon myself -- no puppets involved.
His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.
I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he could not possibly give me any money... Even the fact that he was dealing with someone who had been dead for several days failed to awaken interest in his official heart.
I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.
Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.
If someone angers you, they control you.