JONAS EDWARD SALK (1914-1995)
In nineteen-hundred-and-fourteen
In New York City he was born.
A son named Jonas Edward Salk
To help others he would be sworn.
For Dora and Daniel B. Salk
Jonas was the first son of three.
He wanted to be a lawyer
But, Mom discouraged him to be.
She asked him what his reason was
And he would never win a case.
You cannot win an argument
You’re too timid in the first place.
She pushed him into medicine
And this was clearly her advice.
Now at an age where he had learned
When Mother spoke she was concise.
He received his first diploma
A Bachelor of Science degree.
From City College of New York
Now with Mother he did agree.
Then the College of Medicine
At New York University.
In June of nineteen-thirty-nine
He earned his medical degree.
At college he met Ms. Calfin
They were married in thirty-nine.
They had three children all were boys
In time their marriage would decline.
A well known disease in that time
His quest to find a cure would begin.
He started as a staff physician at,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
In forty-seven moved to Pittsburgh.
Jonas developed and refined
As he led the Virus Research Lab
A successful cure they did find.
He opened the Salk Institute
For Biological studies.
Of molecular biology
Genetics and antibodies.
In nineteen-hundred-fifty-two
There were sixty-thousand cases.
The vaccine became available
It almost completely erases.
Nineteen-hundred-fifty-seven
Vaccine to Europe was exported.
In nineteen-hundred and seventy-nine
Only ten cases were reported.
His dream complete and successful
A cure for polio was found.
The lives he saved from this disease
A hero known the world around.
AUTHOR NOTES*
Born, October 28, 1914; Died, June 23, 1995 |
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