Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University scientists will receive almost $40,000 in March of Dimes grants to continue the battle against polio, Dr. Sidney Burwell, Dean of the Medical School, announced yesterday...
...Whittenberger is also directing work on a "pneumatachograph," an apparatus which clocks the amount of airflow and pressure in the breath of polio victims...
Over $5,000 of the gift will be used to develop a technique of detecting polio by measuring the electricity in a patient's muscles. Dr. Robert S. Schwab '26, instructor in Neurology, and Dr. Arthur L. Watkins '31, associate in Medicine, are heading the project...
...method of investigating the causes of polio by measuring the amount of electricity in the muscles of victims was revealed yesterday by Dr. Arthur L. Watkins '31, associate in Medicine...
...Public Health Service had received reports of 27,032 cases, close to the alltime record of 27,363 cases (from a smaller population) for the full year 1916. But was it really as bad as it looked? The experts were not sure. Diagnosis and reporting of polio are better than they used to be: years ago doctors recognized only cases that resulted in paralysis; now they can often spot the milder cases that used to be confused with grippe, and the record is more exact...