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Show Ir t oo SOLVING THE CAUSE OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Infantile paraleis has been an In-, sidious disease destroying the lives of babies, which the doctors have been wholly Incapable of combatting But now Dr. Simon Flexner. director direc-tor of Rockefeller Institute ol research, re-search, offers hope that noon a 6e- rum is to be obtained that will make' ! the disease yield to treatment as did diphtheria after the Klcbu-Loffler ba-cillus ba-cillus had been Isolated and a serum obtained from an Inoculated horsr A day last week a baby in Hunts-ville Hunts-ville died from Infantile paralysis and several deaths have been reported report-ed of late from other parts of Utah Many children aifllcted become helpless help-less invalids if they survive the attack. at-tack. The dispatches tell us thai the ;m-nouncement ;m-nouncement of Dr. Flexner 6 discovery discov-ery has aroused the keenest interest among scientists and physicians, eminent em-inent in their profession, who regard' H as one of the most important discoveries dis-coveries of recent years Dr. Flexner said that In the cul'i vation of the organism the use of a medium freed from oxygen had been found necessary, and that because it could grow only In Hie absence of oxygen It would never be found in' blood or In any cavity containing, oxygen. In the cultivation of it the tissue Infected with the virus -was placed in a receptacle from which the aid was drawn by means of a i I a uuni pump, and under the resultant condition the virus was proijagtUcd Dr. Flcxurr, referring to a treat- i is by Dr. Roucnau ol Washington! setting forth the discovery that tu- I fectlon with infantile paralysis was caused by the stable fly, da id thai In bis own research lie had not been ( able to establish the fact that infection infec-tion its caused by the fly. though he Lad do doubt that Dr. rcosenau had , done so. in the course of his experiments. ! he said, he had employed for obser- vation other Insects which were sJ- j lowed to bite monkeys infected with the disease, and bad found that the insects thus became Infected with (he germ and retained it eight days, but he had not succeeded in Infecting monkeys with the disease by having them bitten by insects so infected. WH |