INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21985, 8 January 1937, Page 13

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS Sir, —We wondered if our experience of infantile paralysis would help any-, one. In 1925 we had a little chap who took it rather badly, and who would (so the doctor assured me afterwards) have been paralysed in both arms; but the thing that saved him was that we got to work in time with my mother’s old homoeopathic remedy. As soon as our child showed signs of a rising temperature I put him straight into a hot bath, put him in a bed heated with hot water bottles, and gave him a dose of castor oil, at the same time ringing the doctor, who, incidentally, lived 15 miles away. He ordered two aspirin tablets every two hours. My husband, who held the boy’s hands, could feel his arms jerking as he held him. Next morning he was better, although confined to bed for a week or so, but, thank God, no paralysis. The doctor explained to me afterwards that had we not done what we did straight away* pot waiting for the doctor, he would have been paralysed in both arms.—Yours, THANKFUL MOTHER. January 7, 1937.