Word: polio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee of doctors appointed by county authorities undertook to study the epidemic. Last week the committee submitted its report, written by Neurologist Edmund Thorwald Remmen. The report was, in effect, a description of a new disease, at least of one never previously reported in medical literature. It is called polio-encephalitis...
Poliomyelitis is transmitted by a virus. Polio-encephalitis appears to be caused by a streptococcus. Dr. Edward Carl Rose-now of the Mayo Foundation cultured streptococci from inflamed muscles, injected the culture into monkeys, reproduced the disease in them. In infantile paralysis, the affected muscles are withered and flaccid; in polio-encephalitis they are not-but they are so acutely inflamed and painful that spasms often occur and any movement is impossible. Furthermore, the seat of infantile paralysis is in the spinal cord, whereas the seat of polio-encephalitis is in the brain...
Toronto, with 327 cases of polio thus far last week became the first community on the continent to test the worth of the Peet-Schultz prophylactic nasal spray (TIME Sept. 6 et ante), by applying it to a significant number of children. Led by the Hospital for Sick Children, all the city's hospitals opened clinics for application of the spray. Soon as newspapers announced the fact, 5,000 parents brought children to get the treatment...
Other regions that have had lesser "polio" epidemics this year: Michigan, home of Dr. Max Peet of the University of Michigan, who has advocated as a polio-preventive spraying the noses of children with a solution of zinc sulphate (TIME, July 5); Buffalo, which has posted guards along the 35-mile Niagara frontier on the chance that the epidemic was imported from, Ontario; Toronto and Kingston, Canada, which have postponed opening of school and advised parents to keep their children away from the Canadian National Exhibition to open at Toronto next week...
When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...