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1media/Jakobheine.jpg2020-09-09T11:59:55-07:00Clinical Disease Entity15Jacob von Heine was the first to recognize poliomyelitis as a clinical disease entity.plain2020-10-26T16:29:32-07:00 Jacob von Heine in 1840 was the first to recognize the virus as a clinical disease entity. He separated the disease from other forms of paralysis and termed it infantile spinal paralysis. The disease was sometimes called Heine-Medin's disease before it became generally known as poliomyelitis later in the 19th century.
References Pietrzak, Krzysztof et al. “Jacob Heine (1800-1879).” Journal of neurology vol. 264,7 (2017): 1545-1546. doi:10.1007/s00415-017-8454-7
