DECLINE OF PARALYSIS
NEW REMEDY DISCOVERED.
Professor Robertson, presenting his annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum in March, reports the "Manchester Guardian," disoussed a remarkable change in the number- of deaths from paralysis.
"The most serious malady that we treat in mental hospitals is general paralysis," Dr. Robertson said, "and during the last ten years keen interest has been taken in the searoh for a remedy. The latest remedy is the inoculation of the patient with tertian malaria. It is known that the presence of one malady sometimes has tho effeot of checking another, and it is asserted from Vienna that remarkable results have been obtained in gen-eral-paralysis when the patient has been infected with malaria. The statements made, are so positive that this method, of treatment .must' be ■• tested. : Giving- the patient any ohanoe of recovery, .however small, is better than doing nothing. "It Js a dramatio and paradoxical occurrence that this disease, which has defled all our combined efforts to treat it, should have suddenly decreased, judging by the number. of deaths, In the most mysterious way. No satisfactory explanation has yet been forthcoming to account for it."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 22
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191DECLINE OF PARALYSIS Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 22
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