A very fatal form of poliomyelitis has for a number of years prevailed in Sweden.
In spite of a high general resistance to infection the lesions in chronic glanders are most marked in the muscles, those of poliomyelitis in the spinal cord.
Such passive carriers of infection have been found for a number of diseases, as cerebro-spinal meningitis, diphtheria, poliomyelitis and cholera.
Not once were these investigators again able to transmit the infection of poliomyelitis through Stomoxys.
It was found that the house-fly (Musca domestica) can carry the virus of poliomyelitis in an active state for several days upon the surface of the body and for several hours within the gastro-intestinal tract.
Still further evidence against the hypothesis of the transmission of acute anterior poliomyelitis by Stomoxys calcitrans was brought forward by Sawyer and Herms (1913).
Some experimental observations on monkeys, concerning the transmission of poliomyelitis through the agency of Stomoxys calcitrans.
Attempts to transmit poliomyelitis by means of the stable-fly (Stomoxys calcitrans).
Transmission of poliomyelitisby means of the stable-fly (Stomoxys calcitrans).
The possible role of the cockroach in the dissemination of poliomyelitis virus.
The cockroach as a natural extrahuman source of poliomyelitis virus.
The recovery of poliomyelitis virus after parenteral introduction into cockroaches and houseflies.
Periplaneta brunnea= Viruses: Unspecified strain(s) ofpoliomyelitis virus (host may have been P.
Periplaneta americana= Viruses: Unspecified strain(s) of poliomyelitisvirus (host may have been P.
Neuritis and poliomyelitis producing an Erb’s palsy without any effect upon the electrical reactions is an hypothesis not to be entertained.
The diagnosis of subacute poliomyelitis was considered.
The remnants of the old poliomyelitis of the left leg were shown in a general weakness of that leg as compared with the right.
He had had a poliomyelitis at five, affecting the left leg, and he had had a right hemiplegia with aphasia following pneumonia, at 20.
Anterior poliomyelitis is characterised by an illness attended with fever, in which the child is found to have lost the power of one, less frequently of both lower extremities; or, it may be, of one or both arms.
The muscles in the region of the shoulder may have their innervation interfered with as a result of various conditions, of which poliomyelitis and injuries of the brachial plexus at birth are the most important.
Female child showing the results of Poliomyelitis affecting the left lower extremity; the limb is short and poorly developed, the pelvis is tilted and the spine is curved.
This deformity, in which the foot is in the position of plantar-flexion with the heel drawn up and the toes pointed, is nearly always acquired as a result either of poliomyelitis or of spastic paralysis.
In typical cases this results from poliomyelitis affecting the tibial muscles.
Deformities of the Knee resulting from Anterior Poliomyelitis and from Spastic Paralysis.
Arrested Growth and Wasting of Tissues of Right Upper Extremity, the result of Anterior Poliomyelitis in childhood.
Complete destruction of the motor cells in the anterior horn of grey matter as a result of poliomyelitis is now known to be exceptional; as a matter of fact, damage to the nerve cells is usually capable of being repaired.
The treatment of paralytic equino-varus, short of operation, has been referred to under anterior poliomyelitis (p.
