sentences:  Of the 57,628 cases reported that year 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.In the early 20th century—in the absence of proven treatments—a number of odd and potentially dangerous polio treatments were suggested.In John Haven Emerson's "A Monograph on the Epidemic of Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis) in New York City in 1916" one suggested remedy reads