Investigations on epidemic infantile paralysis : report from the State Medical Institute of Sweden to the XV International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, Washington 1912.

  • Karolinska mediko-kirurgiska institutet.
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1912
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    A. Experimental and pathological in- vestigations. I. The presence of the microbe of Infantile Paralysis in human beings. By Carl Kling, Alfred Pettersson and Wilhelm Wernstedt. a) A review of the investigations previously made regar- ding the presence of the virus in the human body. On Dec. 18, 1908, Landsteiner and Popper com- municated to the K. K. Gesellschaft der Arzte in Vienna that they had succeeded in transferring poliomyelitis from human beings to monkeys. With this report the investigations on infantile paralysis entered a new era. Very soon reports of similar successful transmissions were made by Knoepfei^macher, Flexner and Lewis, Leiner and v. WiESNER, Romer and others, and in the different laboratories an ardent study of the disease now commenced, monkeys being employed in the experiments. Thanks to these investigations our knowledge of infantile paralysis has deepened within the last three years in a previously unexpected man- ner and much in the hitherto quite obscure etiology has in this way become lucid. The first fundamental experiments were made by Landsteiner and Popper in November 1908. The material for their investiga-