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The first medical report on poliomyelitis was by
Jakob Heine, in 1840; he called the disease Lähmungszustände der unteren Extremitäten ("Paralysis of the lower Extremities"). ... This work, and the prior classification by Heine, led to the disease being known as Heine-Medin disease.