Search Details

Word: respira (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Doctors include infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) among the respira tory diseases. So far as is known, the disease only occurs in man and he is the sole source of infection (monkeys have been infected in clinics). Transmission may occur through insects and other animal carriers, but there is no definite evidence. No organism has been isolated which has been proved to be the cause of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infantile Paralysis | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

| 1 |