INFANTILE PARALYSIS
PROMISING EXPERIMENTS
VANCOUVER, June 27.
A Canadian physician has made remarkable strides of progress in experiments to cope with the dread disease —infantile paralysis. Dr. I. H. Scheffer, of McGill University, working with Dr. M. B. Brandy, of New York, has discovered a method of carrying on the functions of respiration and cardiac action in cases of infantile paralysis in which the cardiorespiratory centre in the brain stem is injured by the disease. They have been conducting experiments and have been successful in prolonging life for as long as twelve hours after cessation of respiration and heart action. An elaborate respiratory apparatus performs for the injured respiratory centre.
Other experiments designed to reduce the swelling and inflammation of the spinal cord whichr occur in infantile paralysis, engaged in by these physicians, have been very promising.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1929, Page 3
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