Stela in Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, dating back to the late 18th or 19th dynasty, shows a Babylonian, Rem, whose atrophied leg is characteristic of paralytic poliomyelitis.
Here is represented the 116th issue of the Index to Public Health Reports. The indexes of the first three volumes of the Reports,1878-79,1887,and 1888...
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