Yes, although I was one of the 422,000 “polio pioneers” who got the “real thing” in 1954, I did come down with bulbar polio in 1956. I got through the critical period and only had to be ...

WHEN patients have severe airway obstruction or swallowing difficulties, as may occur with bulbar poliomyelitis, the insertion of a tracheostomy tube may be required to ensure a clear airway, to ...

The iron lung is unable to cope with the irregular breathing in cases of bulbar poliomyelitis. On the other hand, the electrophrenic method cannot handle the more common, spinal type of paralysis.

RAPIDLY progressive bulbar spinal poliomyelitis in a patient with pregnancy at or near term may pose difficult problems. If spontaneous labor occurs during the acute phase of the illness and the pr ...

But with bulbar polio — difficulty swallowing, all of that — it was 90% mortality for those patients. I stumbled on this story in a book called The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine 20 years ago.

It is clear that Pyromen is no cure for polio. Among victims of bulbar polio treated with Pyromen, there were as many deaths (seven) as there were among the others.

But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff’s theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged. To help Sarnoff translate his theory into practice, ...