PARALYSIS TREATMENT
Sister Kenny's Treatment Defended SHARP RETORT TO B.M.A. (Received 18, 8.45 a,m.) SiYDNEY, Nov, 17. Defending Sister Elizabeth Kenhy's seheme for treating infantile paralysis cases, the Federal Minister of Health, Mr W. Hughes, declared:— "The Bfitish Medieal Assooiation's critiqism of Sister Kenny's treatment is unconvincing and illogical, and not free from in accuracieS." Mr Hughes pointed out that the Brb tish Medieal Assooiation's assertion that "the only reports On Sister Kenny's treatment had been unfavourable," was entirely opposed to the facts revealed by the Medieal Committee of the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, where clinic case3 were showing a ' matked improvement, Mr Hughes emphasises that. Sister Kenny's patients have been those whom ordinary conventional methods had not beneflted, The Minister then adds: — • "Here is a disCase which the medfcal profession can neither prevent nor cure, yet it adopts an amazing attitude. "This is not the time for experimen tation. My view is that if Sister Ivedny's methods promise — as results seem to show — better reSults than the conventional methods, they should be adopted and applied to all cases from the inception of the disease."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 5
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