Poliomyelitis
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
PR2.14519, 1954-1956
Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: healed vascular anomaly; epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; facial weakness; headaches; pneumonia; pleurisy; calcified lesion; and poliomyelitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR2.15589, 1955
Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) first examined in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: polio; difficulty in swallowing; and palatal and pharyngeal paresis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR2.19708, 1958
Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 36 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: poliomyelitis; weakness in left forearm; giddiness; and paraesthesiae in arms. No treatment given. Patient discharged.
Press Release on the Polio Vaccination, 1958
A typed press release of a letter written by M. Beddow Bayly on the breakdown of the Polio vaccination distribution. This letter was presented at the Conference of Anti-Vivisection Societies, 24th April 1958
The Field of Dead Monkeys, 1958
A republished article from the Sunday Pictorial, October 19th 1958, titled "The Field of Dead Monkeys", by Ross Richards. The article is about the conditions monkeys are kept for polio research in the UK. Republished by the SSPV and was withdrawn from publication December 1966.
The "Shot" Killed my Son and other articles, 1955
The Story of the Salk Anti-Poliomyelistis Vaccine, 1956
A booklet, written by M. Beddow Bayly, and published by the SSPV, titled "The Story of the Salk Anti-Poliomyelitis Vaccine". The booklet leans more torwards the argument of the dangers of the vaccine rather than anti-vivisection. Out of 35 chapters, 3 regard vivisection.
To Parents, 1955
A leaflet warning parents about the effects of the polio vaccine on their children. Published by the Edinburgh branch of the Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society.