PROBLEMS IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF POLIOMYELITIS
Authors: A B SABIN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1949)

Article1 January 1949PROBLEMS IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF POLIOMYELITISALBERT B. SABIN, M.D.ALBERT B. SABIN, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-30-1-40 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe people who have worked for many years gathering information on the natural history of poliomyelitis are more impressed with the tremendous amount that remains to be learned than with what is known at the present time. That is not to say that in the approximately 40 years since the discovery of the virus etiology of the disease, there has not been accumulated a great deal of basic information, but what we know is still so sketchy that different investigators can interpret the available data in different ways. In this discussion I shall deal especially with the events which follow...Bibliography1. SABINWARD ABR: The natural history of human poliomyelitis. I. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cincinnati, Ohio*Morning lecture delivered at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, San Francisco, California, April 21, 1948.From the Children's Hospital Research Foundation and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.Personal work reported in this communication carried out with the aid of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. 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