Jonas Salk and the Invention of the Polio Vaccine

Clinical disease entity

Jacob von Heine in 1840 was the first to recognize poliomyelitis 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. He wrote a monograph on congenital and acquired dislocation, and was also the first to describe spastic paraplegia, also in 1840.

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  1. First Clinical Description of Polio Cari Kaurloto

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  1. Polio Timeline Alvaro Quezada

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