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Title: Acute poliomyelitis, with special reference to the disease in Ohio, and certain transmission experiments
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Boudreau, Frank G. (Frank George), 1886-1970
Subjects: Poliomyelitis Acute Disease
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, F.J. Heer Printing Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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/ ^ 3 ^ S 6 7 Q 9 DAYS OHIO STATE UOARD OK HEALTH. 59 TWO HUMAN CASES DAVS
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€0 MONTHLY BULLETiiS Pain appears to be a more or less constant feature of the disease.On account of the extreme youth of the patients a history of spon-taneous pain is difficult to secure in the majority of cases. Pain onmovement, or evidence of fear of movement is practically constant, andsuggests hyperaesthesia, which is one of the most constant and char-acteristic features of acute poliomyelitis. By hyperaesthesia we do notmean an increase in the sensibility of the skin only, but rather a con-dition of the patient in which his whole sensorium is abnormally sensi-tive to movement, or attempted movement. A sudden noise, an unex-pected touch, or a rapid movement of lights and shadows causes himto start violently. It is a condition very similar to that found in casesof strychnine poisoning where a sudden noise or jar throws the patientinto a convulsion. This is also a marked feature in the experimentaldisease. A sudden tap on the cage will set up a series of quick shakingmovements i

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