DURING the months of March and April, 1945, a southern army post experienced a short but explosive outbreak of anterior poliomyelitis. Within a period of twenty-five days, 18 patients suffering ...

AN ABNORMALLY elevated arterial blood A pressure has been a striking finding in over half the patients with acute paralytic poliomyelitis seen at the New York Hospital in the past two years.

Polio, the familiar term for the disease of the nervous system medically known as anterior poliomyelitis, is caused by a tiny living particle—a virus. Polio has its peak occurrence each summer ...

A simple but apparently efficient remedy for the late stages of infantile paralysis (anterior poliomyelitis) was tried out at the Northwestern University Medical School and used by the Visiting ...

Poliomyelitis (also known as Heine-Medin disease, acute anterior poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis) is a highly contagious disease caused by an enterovirus. Anyone who is not vaccinated can ...