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Show MUSIC AS CURATIVE AGENT Results Obtained in Sufferers Frorr Infantile Paralysis Shown in London. A demonstration has just been given in London of the results obtained from yie scientific use of music and rhythm in infantile paralysis. The patients who assisted at the demonstration were at one time considered incurable at the general hospitals. The first patient was a boy of six, whose right arm had been totally paralyzed following an attack of acute infantile paralysis. A drum and his zeal for beating it so as to become a professional drummer when he grows up have been his salvation. What massage and electrical treatment alone could not do constant working at his drumming has accomplished, and now the paralyzed arm Is almost as useful as the other. The second case was a child of three who six months ago was totally paralyzed in both legs. Her treatment consisted of "marching" to an inspiriting inspirit-ing tune played on the piano while seated on the edge of a low wooden chair. The most interesting case was ,a girl of ten, who three years ago was refused admission to one of the leading lead-ing London hospitals as being hopelessly hope-lessly Incurable. The right leg and arm were almost useless, xwhile pa-rahsis pa-rahsis of certain of the throat and tongue muscles made the child's speech almost incoherent. Dull and mentally deficient in many ways, her interest in musical sounds gave the clue to the treatment. Singing Sing-ing exercises were devised iu which to pronounce the vowels correctly the semi-paralyzed muscles had to be used, while a wooden clapper and a bell to be sounded by the paralyzed foot and arm respectively completed the apparatus. After a cure extending over three years this patient, now a normal looking look-ing girl, sang at the demonstration a number of songs in a rich full voice, and then skipped rope to show the control the musical treatment has gained over the Injured limb muscles |