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Show Q DAILY HEALTH ftgSWICI Scourge of Infantile Paralysis j Still a Puzzle to Science I : 1 a By DR. MORRIS FISMSEIN Editor, Jeumal af the American Medical Aeeeciatien, and ad Hygg tha Health Mgam The must danger mim atid noet crippling of disorder affecting rbildron tenia y la 'infantile parul-ysla. parul-ysla. The bealth scot ton o( Hm leaiu nf natlone find that thbi dlaeaae baa an average death rat for all forma from IJ tu IS par cent. Apparently the virulence of the germ Increase during epidemic and mure caeca are likely to be found and properly diagnosed at that tlma than in the ftbaenca o( epidemic condition. Apparently lha disease does not frequentl attack people living in hot countries. In the north tb 1 diseaaa rear he It highest point In August and September, and In Ih southern half of tb world bet wren Itecentber and Muy. Tha raai't vuue uf Infantile paralysta haa not been determined, although It mantfeaigtlnna In the body are ao definite a to It fairly easily recognised. It I believed by many ' that the irgnlu'i wbU b causea the dlsrusa evlsta In tiatur and attacks the human being when wad tt Ion a become right from the point of view nf lentfieruture, Ikico metric pre u it, and similar lac-tore. lac-tore. It bra b-n ar tucil that the ni :nr. Ism can be ti ana(rred thrmigy milk ur through water, bu even . tbg evidence la not well retail-Itshed. retail-Itshed. In practically every Instance there aemn la he ft relatlunablp of the ronlact of the patient with someone who ha thn disease or , with a member of tha family of I someone who baa had the diaeaee. However. In niHiiy Inatancea the diaegae occurs In (ami Ilea In which none of the other nu iitbera of tba family get Infantile parlla even though exaed. It la quite certainly eatahabed that a viius la reaiamelble tor the dlaeaae. that this vlrua l bu-nted In the uper portlorta of the noae and thn. at. and thut It baa ape-ciflc ape-ciflc affinity fur the nervou system whloh causea tt ta pruduie the paralyse I that I the m et aig-nirieant aig-nirieant a mptom of Infantile purely st. Hlnce neither the exact causa of the disease nor the meaua by which It la pre1 ad B definitely ktiuwn. ih prevention uf Infantile paralyiB I an extremely difficult problem-Attempt problem-Attempt have been made to Inoculate Inocu-late against the dlaeaae with a front the org an lain that ha lieen alleged u bav a. causative reUi llunshlp and wllh the blood of per-Mini per-Mini who hav recovered from thv dlaeaae. At ineacnt. tb latter method seems to be the one moet In favor a a meana of preventing the disease dis-ease ur aa mctmM of control In caaeg when aceu cuil. |