INFANTILE PARALYSIS
SISTER KENNY'S TREATMENT / REPORT BY SPECIALISTS LONDON, Oct. 26 "We have seen no reason to admit that Sister Kenny's claim to a complete cure can be promised for any group of cases of infantile paralysis," says the London County Council s honorary specialists' committee. The committee considers that Sister Kenny's use of hydrotherapy is valuable. but that her method of initiating movement does not include a number of useful measures practised here. "Experienced masseurs," it says, "do not approve her entire abolition of splints and appliances, and they express the opinion that her mechanical substitutes are inadequate. "Sister Kenny has not really faced the issue of residual paralysis, for which surgical appliances and methods such as stabilising operations offer the only eventual hope of amelioration." The British Medical Journal says: "There has been undue optimism about the results of Sister 'Kenny's * treatment, though there is value in her work."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23183, 1 November 1938, Page 9
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