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Otaki Mail, 14 May 1923, Page 4

CURE FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

! A '‘Hail” reader forward- tbe following clipping for publication: — A Dunedin lady’s story of how sire - cured her eon 'of Infantile paralysis : when he was about two or three years • id ii, related in the ‘'Star." "It came to him in cutting bis teeth. He was ' affected from the hip down. One leg shrank badly. I rubbed him well , with turpentine and oil, and bathed ; the lower parts three or f-our times a day in clean ocean water that .we car-! . ried in from, the beach and heated. 1 j stood his feet in the hot .water and -rubbed 1; in. After a while 1 called i in Dr. Coughtrey, arid he said I you;* ; not do anything better, so l persever;ed with the treatment, and in from j six to twelve months the child was | able to get about. He grew up all ! right, one leg a bit shrunken, but he , was able for his work, and is now ! over 35 years of age." Having heard this narration we saw the man himself. He drew up his trousers and showed one leg well" developed, the other five inches less girth. "That," ; he said, “is my 3nly reminder of the : trouble that mother - has told von about. I have no pain in the thin leg unless I have a bit of hard walking or work, when it aches a little after an, hour's stress, but nothing to worry about. I reckon it’s a good cure. I told a friend about a couple of years ago. and he tried i: on his child. He used to dig up a bit of wet sand from ‘ below the tide mark and carry i: j home in a tin, and he rubbed tbe youngster with the hot water and then I put on the sand, warm, in a pillow-< case, and in three weeks the child was able to walk about, though it had been ill for four months. T think it a fair thing to let the public know these things, and if anyone asks who i am you may give them privately my name 1 and address." ,

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