Elizabeth Kenny
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"Elizabeth Kenny" was 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 immobilizing them. Kenny's principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, or physiotherapy.

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It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

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."

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

I play the Demon myself -- no puppets involved.

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.