Word: bulbar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen by any pre-electronic microscope. Unlike most other disease-causing microbes, this virus does its damage only by attacking the central nervous system,* paralyzing nerve centers and pathways that control distant muscles. Nerves governing the legs, arms and breathing are particularly susceptible. In the severest and commonly fatal bulbar cases (involving the bulb at the base of the brain), speech and swallowing are affected as well as central breathing control...
Made by Bacteria. So far, Dr. Schopp and his colleagues report, they have treated 53 patients with Pyromen and compared them with 51 who did not get the drug. It is clear that Pyromen is no cure for polio. Among victims of bulbar polio treated with Pyromen, there were as many deaths (seven) as there were among the others. Also, polio is so unpredictable a disease that doctors may easily be fooled, and credit a drug for a patient's natural improvement. But, says Dr. Schopp, this admittedly sketchy study indicates that Pyromen helps virus-ravaged nerves to rebuild...
...meant to replace the iron lung because it is mainly effective against only one type of polio--bulbar polio. This variety of the disease attacks the bulb at the base of the skull where the nerve center is located. The EPR takes over for the disturbed nerve center and substitutes its own steady breathing impulses for the weak, irregular ones from the brain...
...patients were able to leave the hospital after only seven to 14 days, some to go home, others to an orthopedic hospital where the retraining of impaired muscles could begin sooner. Dr. Smith does not recommend giving the drug to patients who have the severe forms of bulbar or bulbospinal poliomyelitis, or to those in iron lungs...