WALKING FOR CHILD PARALYSIS
A "walking cure" for -luantile paralysis is giving most excellent (Results at the Great Ormond Street' Hospitalfor Sick Children,/-London. Under the old system a child-was kept in bed and massage ; and electricity were used to keep the muscles Ijom \vasiifl,i". Now, through a splint made of nViinflammable material of extreme lightliess and strength, perfected by Dr Batten, of the hospital, the children are taught to walk as soon as the pain of the seizure is over. The weight of the ■body is supported in a kind of crawling •chair. The paralysed muscles suffer a minimum of wasting and-the injured serves regain power rapidly,
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Bruce Herald, Volume LII, Issue 23, 23 March 1916, Page 3
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107WALKING FOR CHILD PARALYSIS Bruce Herald, Volume LII, Issue 23, 23 March 1916, Page 3
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