Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six and a half hours, Dr. James E. Bell Jr. decided to improvise. He gave a shot of neostigmine-recently used to relax contracted muscles in polio and arthritis (TIME, Jan. 15) and a shot of atropine. In 15 minutes the bitten boy's abdomen began to soften, his legs relaxed a little. In an hour he was comfortable except for a slight headache...
Typhoid in Germany, reported UNRRA, was at 30 times its normal level in September. Syphilis had a "three-to-nine-fold increase in most countries and a 20-fold increase in Germany." Belgium was recovering from a polio epidemic. But the diseases that worry UNRRA most are 1) tuberculosis, which kills those weakened by exposure and starvation, 2) influenza, which has not yet hit in force (though many Berliners had it last week), 3) the strangely virulent diphtheria which struck hundreds of thousands of central and northern Europeans in 1942 and 1943 (TIME, June...
...oldest complaints against medical research is the uneven way the money is divided. Some diseases that kill relatively few people (e.g., polio) have been using up far more research money per case than such common ailments as heart disease and cancer...
...from Manila . . . two cases which showed up in our shipment turned out to contain typewriters . . . one press arrived so badly damaged it will be a total casualty for at least four months . . . and late in September we had to round up a whole new crew of printers when a polio outbreak quarantined all our plate-makers and pressmen...
...Ransohoff does not say that curare is a cure for polio-it cannot restore destroyed nerves. All he claims is that his treatment makes the acute stage more bearable...