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being known as Heine–Medin disease. The
disease was
later called infantile paralysis,
based on its
propensity to
affect children.
Before the 20th century...
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conceal in public. In 1938, he
founded the
National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis,
leading to the
development of
polio vaccines.
Although historical...
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President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in 1938, as the
National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, to
combat polio. The name "March of Dimes" was
coined by
Eddie Cantor...
- to
maximize its
global distribution. The
National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis and the
University of
Pittsburgh looked into
patenting the vaccine...
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patient who she
treated for the
disease that Dr
McDonnell thought was
infantile paralysis. The
story was
romanticized in the 1946 film
Sister Kenny, featuring...
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feature of
altered skeletal muscle performance with a
combination of
paralysis,
increased tendon reflex activity, and hypertonia. It is also colloquially...
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which helped in
recovery efforts following Lombard's death, the
Infantile Paralysis Drive ($25,000),
Motion Picture Relief ($25,000), and the Navy Relief...
- Many
cases of "
infantile paralysis" (later
known as poliomyelitis) may well have been
misdiagnosed and
actually been
cases of tick
paralysis. The life cycle...
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changed several times in the past century.
Prior to
World War II,
infantile paralysis (or polio) was
widely accepted as the cause. This is the diagnosis...
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variously as:
Dental Paralysis,
Infantile Spinal Paralysis,
Creeping Paralysis,
Essential Paralysis of Children,
Regressive Paralysis,
Myelitis of the Anterior...
