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WILBURT C. DAVISON, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1936;52(5):1158-1178.

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DEFINITION

Poliomyelitis is a generalized systemic infection due to a virus, which has a predilection for the central nervous system and which sometimes produces flaccid paralysis.¹ It is also known as epidemic or acute infantile paralysis, acute wasting paralysis and Heine-Medin's disease, terms which should be discarded, since the nonparalytic form of the disease is the more common² and Underwood³ described it before Heine was born.⁴ Polioencephalitis is a syndrome resembling both poliomyelitis and encephalitis, and the term may signify either. Landry's paralysis usually, though not always, is a rapidly ascending form of poliomyelitis;⁵ sometimes it is familial;⁶ sometimes it is due to rabies, and occasionally it follows injections of vaccine.⁷ Acute aseptic or serous meningitis⁸ is very likely a nonparalytic form of poliomyelitis.

HISTORY

Evidence of poliomyelitis in Egyptian mummies of 3,700 B. C.⁹ and in skeletons of vikings buried in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DURHAM, N. C.

From the Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, and the Duke Hospital, Durham, N. C., with the assistance of Miss Judith Farrar, librarian at the Duke Hospital.

Footnotes
Read at the general clinical session, Southern Medical Association, twenty-ninth annual meeting, St. Louis, Nov. 20, 1935.

This information has been condensed as briefly as possible, and its sources, especially references 1 and 12 P, should be read for details. A thorough review of the subject and its presentation for laymen are contained in references 12 o and 12 q, respectively.

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