Talk:History of polio

message: * brief and quite specific but probably helpful nonetheless
* Contains a whole chapter on Jakob Heine, available on Google Books.
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:A fantastic resource but some of the most important pages are restricted :( nonetheless it should offer some fine details. 
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:An oldie but goodie, digitized full text available. 
I'll add more to this list as I stumble across them :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 13:10, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
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message: In this edit, I have removed material that was based on direct citation of primary research that was not properly validated, and was not supported by Wikipedia reliable secondary sourcing. The material that I removed was crafted to support fringe or pseudo-science, and is not suitable for this part of Wikipedia; it might provide material for an article on fringe or pseudo-science. I have provided a Wikireliable source.Chjoaygame (talk) 03:02, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed improperly sourced fringe or pseudo-science, replacing it with reliably sourced material 

message: I have undone this good faith IP edit, for the following reasons.
It would be more comfortable for other Wikipedia editors if the user 12.203.219.135 who made the edit would very kindly invent for himself a suitable anonymity-preserving user name and register it. Talking to a number is uncomfortable.
I undid the edit because it was not properly supported in the article by a citation of a reliable source. Posting the source in the edit summary is not a valid way of citing a source in an article.
Moreover, there are problems in the sourcing. True, the edit summary cites a source that names Drinker and McKhann as authors of a 1929 journal article, but this does not establish explicitly that McKhann was a co-inventor; it is only about "successful clinical testing of the Drinker respirator". The text of the present Wikipedia article does not cover this detail. For an acceptable entry of the facts, more thorough citation and text editing is needed. The user 12.203.219.135 has probably found valuable facts that would do well in the article, and Wikipedia would consequently benefit from their being properly posted.
We may hope that the IP user 12.203.219.135 will post his edit again in a proper form, making it clear what are the exact facts, with explicit referencing of the details.Chjoaygame (talk) 17:02, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  reasons for undo of good faith edit 

message: Although I am now 90 years of age, I had polio first at age 17 in 1949. I then was hit with PPS in 1996. I spent my working life as a technical writer, which is a research position. Likely for that reason, I have really paid attention to writings about polio. Most writings tell us that very few people contracted polio much before 1900. I think this is dramatically wrong, and would like to explain why.
          In 1847, a doctor in Europe, who was concerned about the high numbers of women who died in childbirth, came to the conclusion that if doctors did the unforgivable thing of washing their hands before assisting at a birth, far less mothers would be lost. Of course he was spot on. But the general disbelief of this simple correction caused the doctor to be placed in a mental institution, where he was beaten to death. But a few doctors followed suit, and the population grew. 
          What I am about to say is conjecture, but it is likely correct. In the US, I think almost every child born in 1900 played in the dirt. The polio virus is transported in feces, and all dirt and mud then contained the virus. Therefore a vast percentage of young children caught polio. However, no one ever knew it because a great percentage of mothers also had had polio, and had developed a resistance to the virus, which they passed on to their kids. And if you are thinkng that sounds nuts, you ain't seen nothin'yet. 
           At the 1910 meeting of the American Medical Association, it was determined that henceforth, all surgeons were required to wash their hands before performing any kind of surgery. However, something else was in the works. Around 1904, a few companies had introduced artificial milk for babies. This meant close to a complete end to the protections many children had seen. 
          Then the mothers that had been born in or after 1910 nomlonger carried that protection. Therefore, just 20 years later, in 1930, the first big polio epidemic took place. Ain't that amazing?
Larry Kueneman
larryjkueneman@gmail.com
Palm Desert, CA 67.49.65.234 (talk) 01:07, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contracting polio