Beobachtungen uber Lahmungszustande der untern Extremitaten und deren Behandlung Polio

by Jacob von Heine

$600 · Offered by Swan's Fine Books

Stuttgart: Franz Heinrich Kohler, 1840. Hardcover. Octovo size, 93 pp., all text in German. Very good. Item #15122617 First description of acute anterior poliomyelitis, which Heine separated from other forms of paralysis; he described the deformities arising from the disease. He also called attention to congenital spastic paraplegia, which, following Little’s classic description No. 4691.1 , was termed

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