Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early stages of polio, the doctors pointed out in the Journal of the American Medical Association, victims often complain of pain which keeps them rest less, fretful and unable to sleep well...
Admitting that they are no closer to finding a cure for polio, a team of Brooklyn doctors last week reported notable success with a treatment which relieves the pain and helps get patients out of the hospital sooner. The drug they use is Priscoline (which expands blood vessels and speeds up circulation). Dr. Emil Smith and five colleagues tested it last year on 663 patients at the Kingston Avenue Hospital...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
...virus's appetite for nucleoproteins suggested an explanation of the oft-reported link between physical fatigue and the severity of a polio attack, said Dr. Melnick. The nucleoproteins are believed to be reduced by extreme fatigue. Therefore, if the polio virus attacks an exhausted person, the supply of nucleoproteins will be at a minimum and the virus will soon consume it, causing the death of the nerve cells. But if the infected person is well rested and has an abundant store of nucleoproteins in his nerve cells, the virus may be able to satisfy its own needs without destroying...
...back to Steelville and test his theories by taking care of child patients for aged (eightyish) Dr. Rainey Parker, Steelville's only general practitioner. The results were even better than he had hoped for: of 300 cases, 296 got well without going to a hospital; two of the polio victims had to be hospitalized; two children (one with leukemia, one with congenital heart disease) died despite being hospitalized...