Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helps Polio Victims...
...patient suffering from bulbar polio is unable to breathe regularly. When current from the respirator is applied to the nerve, however, the natural, irregular breathing is suspended, and regular, controlled breathing is induced by the apparatus...
Besides treating polio, the electrophrenic method cannot handle the more common, spinal type of paralysis. In spinal poliomyelitis, the phrenic nerve is inoperative...
...slowing down. By last week, U.S. Public Health Service chartmakers could point with confidence to the week ended Aug. 20 (in which 3,419 cases were reported) as the year's peak. Since then, the curve has been downward. But 1949 was certain to have a staggering polio toll marked against it: already 29,051 cases had been reported, and by year's end the total would be nearer...
When the three Yale polio cases were reported, Yale explained that direct contact and heavy exercise in athletics was to be avoided...