Polio Remember that crippling virus? Today it is nearly a thing of the past, thanks to the research and efforts of women like Dr. Isabel Merrick Morgan Mountain. Isabella Morgan is the daughter of Thomas Hunt Morgan a noted American geneticist and embryologist and Nobel Prize winner of 1933.* He is the son of Charlton Morgan. Charlton Hunt Morgan served in the Confederate Army as a 1st Lt. and A.D. C. (unsure what this title is) in the General and Staff Officers, Corps, Division and Brigade Staffs, Non-com. Staffs and Bands, Enlisted Men, Staff Departments, C.S.A.**
Dr. Isabel Morgan Mountain was born August 20, 1911, a graduate of Stanford University, and wrote her doctoral thesis in bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1944 she joined a group of virologists at Johns Hopkins and began experiments to immunize monkeys against polio with killed viruses.***
"One other resource I have on this, involving these people, is an article in the Sept 1968 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (Vol 58, No. 9). On page 1653, there's an article on Environmental Epidemiology with the cryptic title of "Reconsiderations of Mortality as a Useful Index of the Relationship of Environmental Factors to Health." Several co-authors are listed, including (my dad's pal) Col. Joseph D. Mountain, USAF Res, Ret. and his wife, Isabel M. Mountain, Ph.D.
If, on some off chance, you get a copy of the latter, please send me a copy, as I have not been able to secure one."
