Word: myasthenia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prostigmine, a chemical long used against myasthenia gravis (a sometimes fatal fatigue& -weakness disease) and lately found useful for polio (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), now turns out to help some cases of crippling arthritis, spastic paralysis, facial paralysis, paralytic stroke. After treatment with prostigmine, one paralytic, reported Dr. Herman Rabat of the U.S. Public Health Service, moved his right side for the first time in 17 years...