INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4821, 6 April 1925, Page 2

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

CTo the Editor.} Sir.—in reply to an inquirer in the Auckland “Herald,” as to the cause of infantile paralysis, I should like to say that the late Dr. Carroll (founder of the Child Study . Association in Sydney) stated that this was a disease caused by preventing the flow of electricity in the body. This was done when, through continued malnutrition, nerve cell after nerve cell is broken down. How, then, is the disc'axe to be prevented ? By the use of pure vital foods, so that the blood ! s purified and the nerve tissues strengthened. Such foods are brown bread, whole: wheatejnmeal (for porridge and all cookery in place of white flour), gri’nose biscuits, raw fruits, fresh vegetables, no sugar, condiments, or pure milk (uncooked) ; if cooked the enzyme or life-germ is destroyed and the milk is of no more food value than' water.

Dr. Carrol found .that no child who had been fed on pure milk in infancy anti childhood (and no starch foods) had ever had thip disease. For convalescents whqatmeal gruel and porridge were used. The little patient was not forced to exercise Its limbs. As soon as it was tit to exercise, its own spirits would cause it to take just sufficient for its requirements. Iron splints were not used—light cedar wood being (substituted. EILEEN WHITTEN.