Elizabeth Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny (born Sept. 20, 1880, Warialda, N.S.W., Austl.—died Nov. 30, 1952, Toowoomba, Queens.) was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an Irish immigrant farmer, was born into a lower-middle-class family in rural Australia. She received...