Acute flaccid myelitis infectious disease should be considered as a cause when patients presented with neurologic symptoms. A subsequent report described 29 cases of enterovirus D68-associated acute flaccid myelitis in Europe in 2016, noting that "these probably represent only the tip of the iceberg." AFM is diagnosed by examining a patient’s nervous system in combination with reviewing images of the spinal cord. A doctor can examine a patient’s nervous system and the places on the body where he or she has weakness, poor muscle tone, and decreased reflexes. In addition, a doctor can do magnetic resonance imaging to look at a patient’s brain
History of beliefs about the human body much on discourse about bodies, rather than on material bodies themselves. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's 1965 "Rabelais and His World", they promoted a more materially orientated direction in the history of the body. The Ebers Papyrus is an Egyptian medical text and is the oldest known record of the human body, dating back to 3000 BC. The Ebers Papyrus describes the body by physical examination and what can be felt. Clinical investigations such as the Pulse, percussion of the body, the recognition of diseased or disordered states. “If thou examinst a swelling of the covering of his belly’s horns above