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HealthMap on Twitter: "#Polio was first clinically described by physician, Michael Underwood, in 1789. #FactFriday https://t.co/zOBXpdsvUk" / Twitter
![Michael Underwood (1736?-1820) | Vaulted Treasures: Historical Medical Books at the Claude Moore Health Sciences LibraryVaulted Treasures: Historical Medical Books at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Michael Underwood (1736?-1820) | Vaulted Treasures: Historical Medical Books at the Claude Moore Health Sciences LibraryVaulted Treasures: Historical Medical Books at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library](http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/treasures/files/2011/12/RJ44_U5_1789v1_xvi_xvii_big.jpg)
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![A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, With General Directions for the Management of Infants from the Birth 2vols in 1. POLIO by Underwood, Michael: Fair Hardcover (1793) | Henry Pordes Books Ltd A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, With General Directions for the Management of Infants from the Birth 2vols in 1. POLIO by Underwood, Michael: Fair Hardcover (1793) | Henry Pordes Books Ltd](https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/22636773262.jpg)
A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, With General Directions for the Management of Infants from the Birth 2vols in 1. POLIO by Underwood, Michael: Fair Hardcover (1793) | Henry Pordes Books Ltd
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As early as 1400 BCE, this Egyptian stela portrayed a young man with a leg deformity showing the similar effects Polio causes. Polio was given it's first clinical description in 1789 by
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