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BAFFLING DISEASES SCIENTIST’S DISCOVERY CAMBRIDGE, Massa., Nov. 21. The discovery that the sense of smell is an avenue through which some of tho most baling epidemics are spread was announced by Dr. Simon Flexner, who reported on experiments showing that virus causing infantile paralysis enters the brains of monkeys by travelling from their noses through the nerves of smell, but those nerves form a “two-way transport.” The virus can pass from the paralysis of an infected brain down the olfactory nerves, and out through the nose. The insidious nature of an attack through the olfactory nerves is shown by monkeys immunised so that they did not get paralysis, when, tho virus was injected directly into the brains, yet the disedse attacked them when the virus was allowed to enter their noses.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 7
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