Show infant paralysis Is due to flies he finds st louis july 31 dr E W saunders a in childrens diseases last night told members of the st louis medical society that he had proved infantile paralysis to be a alv borne disease originating with chickens and transmitted to other animals and he behee es to children in alie larva of hies ho give the first demonstration of hit theory As n vaud object lesson to prove this theory a monkey to which in fectea litvac biad been fed died from respiratory paralysis in alie physicians presence after having exhibited the which a child in the same manner would undergo at the same time guinea pigs and chickens still living but disabled by the effects of the displaced in their caged of all food which flies may have touched waa urged by dr sounders as n provocative ofin fiction from the larvae A temperature pera ture of degrees he fraid was to sterilize the larvae lie declared sandwiches to be the worst kind of food often swarming with larvae and said picnics should ins put under alie supervision per vision of the board of health children ho said should be to hate and fear hies dr saunders dera gave credit to dr W E wisdom of ark who was press for alie working out of the demonstration which ho believes has convicted alio fly of responsibility for one of the moat dreaded diseases of childhood a question that has puzzled led alie medical fraternity of v ears he called alie attention of alio audience birst to the monkey was even then in a dying condition he told his hearers that lie biad caused alie monkey to swallow forty of alie larvae of the flies eliat biad been brought from arkansas where man cases of infantile paralysis biad been reported A chicken a plymouth rock spring cock cral biad not been made to swallow alio larvae but chev were injected into its wing in a solution of glycerine alio symptoms of the were plainly api parent a few licurs liours afterwards |