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THE Ministry of Health has issued a memorandum upon acute poliomyelitis, an infectious disease commonly known under the name of infantile paralysis, though it may occur in adults (Memo. 166/Med. London: H.M. Stationery Office. 2d. net). The epidemiology, clinical characters and aftereffects of the disease are described and discussed, and the special diagnostic features are considered, together with a description of the changes in the cerebro-spinal fluid which serve to differentiate acute poliomyelitis from the normal and from other nervous diseases with which it may be confused.
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Acute Poliomyelitis. Nature 139, 503 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139503a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139503a0