PARALYSIS BELIEVED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12529, 15 April 1935, Page 6

PARALYSIS BELIEVED

INJECTION OF DBUG ELECTS CUBE LONDON) March 24. A girl who for ion years had neen unable to control, her musses, raise her arms and legs, or even sit up in bed, has been nmazinofy relieved as a result; <>f an experimental injection of prostigmin by Dr Mary Walker, o! Rt. Alfege’s Hospital', Greenwich, Dr Walker has long experimented with injections of a. certain drug, to cure myasthenia, gravis, an unoom mon disease afflicting poopfe ftf'ort between twenty and' thirty, causing almost complete paralysis. Pile found that the drug was harmful and accordingly experimented l wiih prostigmin. Then she administered lo n woman if twenty-eight, who twenty minnow after the injection raised her arms above her head, whereas for ten years she had been unabl© to Tift them horizontaly. She then got out of bed. stood 1 erect, sat on her heels and rose again without the slightest difficulty. Later she danced' without unduo support, from her partner. University Co'lege research workers, who superintended) the experiment, declare that the resul t was little short of a miracle. The patient, next day. after a further injection went to a theatre. Sixteen similar eases have been successfully treated, but the effect, of the drug wears off after five °r six hours. E©Search is being continued m the. hope of giving continual relief. The development is regarded as being as important as the discovery of insulin for the treatment of diabetes and the efficiency of a liver diet, for pernicious anaemia. _