Theodore E. Woodward Award: The devastating backlash of a dread disease: poliomyelitis.
The paper is in three parts. 1) A description of acute anterior poliomyelitis; 2) A summary of the condition of post-polio syndrome; 3) A description of two small epidemics of poliomyelitis juxtaposed and related to one another.
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Billings
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Collins
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