INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 26, 1 February 1915, Page 8

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Parents and those who are interested in the cases of children who suffer from crippled limbs and infantile paralysis, will welcome the news that an invention has been announced which bids fair to at least alleviate the weaknesses of children so afflicted. It is reported that two small patients in the children’s hospital in Great Ormond Street, London, who but a year ago would have been helpless on their backs, crippled by infant paralysis, are now moving about in walking chairs, delighted even with the partial use of their limbs. That they have recovered sufficiently to use their logs a little within a few weeks of their seizures; is due to the use of a new invention, the non-flammable celluloid splint.. The wonderful splint is carefully prepared by a special process, and can be laced about the patient’s leg. It fits like a stocking, is firm enough to support the paralysed limb, yet not heavy enough to burden the affected muscles, By tire aid of the splint, the little patient is taught to walk, after a fashion, in a walking chair, instead of having to lie on its back, and the constant efforts made to move the affected limbs is said to have a wholesome and curative effect. With this knowledge, a terrible ailment, infantile paralysis, is robbed of some of its terrors.