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Show Doctors Hear Reports On Polio Experiments Medical research now going on to determine the cause and cure of poliomyelitis ia "very encouraging and experiments so far have produced pro-duced a vaccine which will immunize immu-nize against four strains of the disease." members of the Utah State Medical A sin. were told Friday. Guest speaker at the aasocla-tlon'a aasocla-tlon'a 64th annual meeting at the University of Utah Union building. Dr. Irvin E. Hendryson, assistant professor of surgery, University of Colorado school of medicine,, also explained a test to help determine de-termine the early presence of polio after other symptoms are noticeable. no-ticeable. "To determine If the person haa polio, quickly put any Involved extremity through its range of motion," he asserted. "In polio we alwaya have been thinking in terms of paralysis. Before paraly- sis occurs there are muscle group that alwaya go Into apaam. We feel that this is the cardinal diagnostic diag-nostic point early in the dieses Ws feel that if the spasm can be recognized it will give a strong clue to whether one la dealing with polio," be aaid. . : "The moat common spread of polio Is from hand to hand to mouth," be continued, "plus the fact there are carriers of ths disease." dis-ease." .. H added that 7S of the persona per-sona who have polio are left without with-out any severe crippling defects. Dr. Elmer Hesa, chief of the urologies! department St Vincent's Vin-cent's hospital, Erie, Pa, admonished admon-ished the medical men to always carefully diagnose a case. , "My experience ia that physicians physi-cians unwittingly do great damage by not being thorough in their examinations of newborn babies," he said. "Merely to specify it's a boy of a girt la not nearly enough. , ' He aaid ' the specialist ahould help and assist the general practitioner. prac-titioner. He also told of the value of good public relations. Other speakers Friday morning war Dr. A. N. Arneeon, chief of staff and attending gynecologist, Branard akin and cancer bos-See bos-See Page t, Cetaaasd DOCTORS . Ceatunsd from Page One pltal, St Louis, Mo.; Dr. Eric Oldberg, head of the department of neurology and neurological surgery. sur-gery. University of Illinois college of medicine; Dr. William P. Long-mire Long-mire Jr, chairman, department of surgery, school of medicine, University, Uni-versity, of California at Los An-gelea. An-gelea. At 4 meeting Thursday night Dr. Rich Johnston, Ogden. and Drs. James p. Kerby and John Z. Brown Jr., Sslt Lake City, were appointed directors of the saaoci-a saaoci-a Lion's medical service bureau. |