INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
NEW METHOD OF TREATMENT. AMERICANS CLAIM SUCCESS. (United Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, December 26. City health officials announced today that they had stopped the use of polymelitis virus vaccine against infantile paralysis after a report in the journal of the American Medical Association declaring that 12 cases of paralysis, six of which were fatal, had developed from iniections. Dr. William Park, co-developer of the vaccine, said he had used it. Qn 9000 children, with only one fatality, and one “doubtful case.” Meanwhile research workers at the Rockefeller Institute have announced that they have extensively tested a chemical method for combating paralysis. It has been used on monkeys and a few humans with considerable success, and no untoward symptoms. It consists of dropping or spraying into the nose solutions of either sodium, alum, or tannic acid.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 65, 28 December 1935, Page 5
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