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British Medical Journal Aug 1952
Topics: Biometry; Poliomyelitis
PubMed: 14944830
DOI: No ID Found -
Lancet (London, England) Jun 1949
Topics: Poliomyelitis
PubMed: 18149308
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(49)92068-1 -
Lancet (London, England) Jun 1968
Topics: Adult; Female; Humans; Immunization; Infant; Male; Poliomyelitis; Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral
PubMed: 4172166
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(68)92326-x -
Lancet (London, England) May 1952
Topics: Poliomyelitis
PubMed: 14928592
DOI: No ID Found -
Revista Chilena de Infectologia :... Aug 2018
Topics: Disease Eradication; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans; Poliomyelitis; Poliovirus Vaccines
PubMed: 30534932
DOI: 10.4067/s0716-10182018000400436 -
Annals of the New York Academy of... May 1995During the years of the polio epidemics, most patients with the poliovirus had little or no paralysis. In those with paralytic polio, the extent of involvement of the... (Review)
Review
During the years of the polio epidemics, most patients with the poliovirus had little or no paralysis. In those with paralytic polio, the extent of involvement of the anterior horn cells was often underestimated. Thus, patients with post-polio syndrome now often report that a limb was uninvolved; however, the original record will show clear evidence of initial paralysis that improved so that the patient no longer recognized the weakness. The epidemics were associated with great anxiety involving the patients, their families and all of society. Treatment was for the most part ineffective and was sometimes confused or inappropriate. Patients developed coping techniques that have been singularly useful and effective. These coping techniques often include strategies that require maximal athletic development of little-used muscles. The coping techniques developed by post-polio patients would be of great benefit to patients with other forms of disability. Review of the medical histories, biographies, and autobiographies of patients who had severe disability because of poliomyelitis reveals that they adopted firm convictions about their disease and their recovery. We must be aware of these convictions if we are to treat their later disabilities. These convictions include the belief that their condition can only improve, that their improvement is related primarily to the willingness of the patient to engage in exercise, and that improvement is more a thing of the spirit than of medication. Associated with this conviction is denial--often concurred with by the family--of the extent of the disability. Furthermore, the confusion of physicians that patients witnessed during the great epidemics suggests to patients that physicians can be of little help to them now. Convictions that were invaluable to patients who were young and vigorous become a liability when aging and progressive weakness supervene. Patients who had adapted to muscle weakness through great physical and emotional effort are unable to continue functions they had regained. However, such patients cannot accept that they do not continue to improve. Some become depressed, but this is unusual.
Topics: Acute Disease; Disease Outbreaks; History, 20th Century; Humans; Poliomyelitis; Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome
PubMed: 7611616
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb27526.x -
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent... Nov 1994The article by Markel in the new Historical Perspectives of Pediatrics section of the ARCHIVES brings back a flood of memories, as I belong to the generation of...
The article by Markel in the new Historical Perspectives of Pediatrics section of the ARCHIVES brings back a flood of memories, as I belong to the generation of pediatricians who actually used tank respirators in treating patients with poliomyelitis. In 1949, the city of Baltimore, Md, closed its contagious disease hospital (Sydenham), which served all of Maryland, and transferred its function to the Baltimore City Hospitals. The reasoning, in addition to a very low occupancy rate at Sydenham, was that the only contagious disease then likely ever to occur in epidemic form was poliomyelitis.
Topics: Disease Outbreaks; History, 20th Century; Hospitals, Convalescent; Humans; Maryland; Poliomyelitis; Prejudice; United States; Ventilators, Negative-Pressure
PubMed: 7921119
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1994.02170110069010 -
Proceedings of the Royal Society of... Dec 1947
Topics: Atlantic Islands; Biometry; Poliomyelitis
PubMed: 18932853
DOI: No ID Found -
The Lancet. Microbe Dec 2023
Topics: Humans; Poliomyelitis; Global Health
PubMed: 38042153
DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00371-3 -
Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery Aug 2023
Topics: Humans; Poliomyelitis; Global Health
PubMed: 37400708
DOI: 10.1038/d41573-023-00107-8