MEDICAL SCIENCE
CURE FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS (Times Cable.) LONDON, January 22. Declaring that there is little doubt that the incurable diseases of to-day would he the brilliant successes of the future, Doctor James Collier, speaking at Saint George’s Hospital, recalled the cure of pernicious anaemia by the feeding of the patients on liver. Now he said, Doctor Wilkinson, of Manchester, had found something remarkable from the stomach of the pig, which could be jiroduced in the form of a food and which needed to he taken only once daily. Moreover a Saint George’s house doctor, the winner of the Scholarship of the Lister Institute, had recently succeeded in injecting infantile paralysis into a horse’s blood which, if injected into a patient in time, will avert paralysis. If this had been done years ago, many lives would have been saved. This horse, ho added, is now an extremely •ynlauldo one, and is living in luxury.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1931, Page 5
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