CREEPING PARALYSIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 6

CREEPING PARALYSIS.

YOUNG WOMAN'S RESEARCH, IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON. Feb. 26. -Miss Kathleen Chevassut, the •woman scientist, who, early last year, announced the isolation of the perm of creeping paralysis, is to have every facility provided for her continued researches.' The Hailey Stewart Trust has arranged for the establishment of laboratories equipped with a most delicate apparatus, and a clinical station at Hampstead. A large house is being converted to this purpose. The trust is spending thousands of pounds on the work, and when the clinic is opened in about a fortnight Miss Chevassut will be its director, in charge of a large staff. She is 32 years of age. "There will be three laboratories, as well as the clinic," says Miss Chevassut. "It will be, when completed, an ideal research station, and will be run on ideal lines. Treatment will probably he at a low cost. Creeping paralysis is to-day a common nervous disease, and its effective treatment is becoming more important. We also hope to be able to apply the same method to the treamenfc of other diseases." American medical authorities have been so impressed by Miss Chevassut's discovery that Dr. Lewis Stephenson has been sent to Londdii to work in the Westi minster Hospital laboratory to master the technique-of the treatment.