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Which version of Ramsay's Disease is better?

Forbin

Forbin

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Sean said:
Ramsay-Gilliams (or Gilliam-Ramsays) Disease is a possibility, with a more international flavour...
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I'm glad that Sean mentioned A.G. Gilliam. In 1938, Gilliam wrote a 90 page review of the 1934 outbreak at Los Angeles County General Hospital. Gilliam had been a past Assistant Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service and his report appeared in the organization's Public Health Bulletin (occupying all of issue #240). It's generally regarded as the first documented ME outbreak, though, at the time, it was called an outbreak of "atypical polio."

The entire report is on Phoenix Rising at the link below, but it takes quite a while to download.
http://phoenixrising.me/wp-content/uploads/LA-outbreak.pdf

You can find it here as HTML, but you cannot download the whole thing.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015022082260?urlappend=;seq=617
 
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