December 2011
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Hey, guys.
I’m back. Arallyn will continue posting here until January, and then I’ll take over again. She did an AMAZING job taking care of this blog for me. I knew she was the right person, I think she did much better than I have ever done! So please, make sure you follow her personal and science blog. She’s invited to post on this blog whenever she wants, and she probably will. And I...
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Poliomyelitis.
Poliomyelitis is a viral disease that can affect nerves and can lead to partial or full paralysis.
Causes
Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. The virus spreads by:
Direct person-to-person contact
Contact with infected mucus or phlegm from the nose or mouth
Contact with infected feces
The virus enters through the mouth and nose, multiplies in the...
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(1845)
zygoma:
(1845 - 1849) J. Marion Sims, later hailed as the “father of gynecology,” performs medical experiments on enslaved African women without anesthesia. These women would usually die of infection soon after surgery. Based on his belief that the movement of newborns’ skull bones during protracted births causes trismus, he also uses a shoemaker’s awl, a pointed tool shoemakers use to make...