INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 8

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

DISCOVERY OF NEW SERUM. Kansas City. A human serum has been discovered for the treatment of infantile paralysis, and has recently been administered to fifty patients in a Massachusetts hospital, Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, professor of preventive medicine at Harvard University, said at the joint meeting here of the Post Graduate Medical Association and the Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society. Dr. Rosenau warned his audience against assuming that a cure for the nyw epidemic disease had been found, and pointed out that use of the serum was effective only in the early stages of development. The serum is prepared from the blood of convalescent infantile paralysis patients. The New York “Evening Post” says that twenty monkeys at the Willard Parker Hospital are being fattened and groomed for experiments in the search for a cure for infantile paralysis. The experimentation will be conducted by the bureau of labour of the New York City Health Department, under supervision of Dr. W. H. Park, its director. Five monkeys will be given the germs of infantile paralysis and allowed to survive or perish, the “Post” says, according to the course nature follows, without interference of medical science. • The other fifteen will be saved if that is possible by the most skilled care and thorough knowledge that medical science tan command. If the methods employed are successful, a cure for infantile paralysis may be found when the cases are treated in the first two or three days, which will lessen the danger rom that disease in the same manner diphtheria anti-toxin has ended tl j danger of that once terrible scourge,