NFANTILE PARALYSIS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10475, 4 January 1928, Page 3

NFANTILE PARALYSIS

DISCOVERY OF NEW SERUM

A human serum has been discovered for the treatment of infantile paralysis, and has recently been administered to fifty patients in a Massachusetts hospital, Dr. Milton J. Rosennii, professor of preventive medicine at Harvard University, said at the joint meeting of the Post Graduate Medical Association and the Kansas City Southwest. Clinical Society.

Dr. Rosenau warned his audience against- assuming that a. cure for the now epidemic disease had been found, and pointed out that use of the serum was effective only in the early stages of development. The serum is prepared frorm the blood of convalescent infantile paralysis patients.

The New York “Evening Post” says that twenty monkeys at the Willard Parker Hospital are being fattened and groomed for experiments in the search for a cure of infantile paralysis. The experimentation will be conducted by the bureau of labor of the New York City Health Department, under supervision of Dr. W. H. Park, its director. Five monkeys will be given the germs of infantile paralysis and allowed to survive or perish, the ‘Post’ says, according to the course nature follows, without interference of medical science. The other fifteen will be saved if that is possible by the most skilled care and thorough knowledge thatmedical science can command. If the methods employed are successful,. a cure, for infantile paralysis may be found when the cases, are treated in the first two or three days, which will lessen the danger from that disease rn the same m’anner as diphtheria antitoxin ,has ended the danger 6f that once terrible scourge.