Show infantile paralysis wave may aw let science test preventive nasal sprays save laboratory monkeys but will they work on humans W I 1 7 1 I 1 VM V 1 A R 8 10 J le 1 S 10 ah I 1 0 K 01 av A N v t W go e 11 W pow ef 0 71 Z fa M q k 4 4 4 u V 3 I 1 1 0 hero monkey what science calls the tiny rhesus monkey like the little fellow here ahn being sprayed in an experiment to test a preventive for infantile paralysis thousands of monkey sh kal in the cause if the sprays prove successful on humans it may mean the end of pitiful cases like da little girl above the annual nationwide nation wide series of presidents birthday parties helps to raise funds flutie lot search work a scene from one is also shown by WILLIAM C UTLEY ITH a wave of infantile VV paralysis assuming serious proportions in the south central region of the united sta states tes science ce may find its long awaited opportunity to make mass tests of nose sprays as a means of preventing the dread crippling disease nasal sprays have proved nearly per cent effect effective ivd upon laboratory monkeys which respond to poliomyelitis omye litis infantile paralysis in the same way humans do but until an extensive outbreak of the disease occurred there was no chance to conduct experiments upon humans for the lives of large numbers oi of persons must not be endangered unnecessarily now that outbreak may be at hand for the south central regions are reporting an increase in polio cases far over the normal increase which comes with the summer months between may 9 and july 24 there were according to the united states public health service cases reported from the west south central region as compared with only 18 cases for the same period of 1936 and 65 cases for the same period of 1935 during these weeks the east south central region reported cases as compared with in 1936 and 57 in 1935 there was some indication of the spread of the disease eastward it was only years ago that dr john badham of worksop workshop Work sop england moved by the condition of four tiny patients pleaded through the medium of medical journals for other doctors to come to his aid with suggestions for the cure of a disease nobody knew anything about get on trail of germ only five years later jacob von heine german orthopedic surgeon of cannstatt Cann staat made public an important study of infantile e paralysis his practice brought him in cont contact act with many cases of d deformed limbs in children A shrewd observer he noticed so something about young par w which aich other medical men had largely overlooked he saw that paralysis was the result of some kind of acute disease which preceded the appearance of muscular weakness yet it was not until 1903 that the first real advance was made in the th e search for a germ then landsteiner and popper in paris injected portions of the brain and spinal chord taken from a fatal human case of infantile paralysis into some monkeys they succeeded in infecting the monkeys with the disease thus putting it on an experimental basis for the first f time only a short time later several doctors almost simultaneously managed to pass poliomyelitis from one monkey to another they were flexner and lewis in new york leiner and von in vienna and landsteiner and Levad levadoti iti in paris in the summer of 1916 the great infantile paralysis epidemic hit the united states it began in a small area in brooklyn then spread rapidly over the rest of new york city and long island eventually cascading over the entire country it touched every state and struck down more than persons most of them children health officers at loss panic pani c swept the nation in the mistaken belief that only those under sixteen were susceptible railroad officials refused to let children ride on trains vigilante bands of citizens established unofficial martial law in many places and health certificates were required as 41 passports for children moving from one community to another health officers made every conceivable cei vable effort to check the disease but they still lacked a working knowledge of ways and means t to 0 combat its ravages the epidemic c died of itself finally and so did public terror there have been less epidemics since then cases were reported arted in 1931 and each in the years 1927 and 1935 medical science recognized infantile paralysis as one of its most challenging problems and redoubled its efforts to find an answer foundations dat ions P research laboratories both public and private universities and individual physicians and research workers concentrated their attention upon it but it remained for a layman la col henry L doherty t to 0 be bein begin in the most novel move in the battle one which popularized the fight among all classes of americans president franklin D roosevelt himself a victim of infantile paralysis inspired the move president R roose belts previous interest in the cause of fellow sufferers had been repeatedly manifested by activities on behalf of the warm springs ga foundation where victims are treated visiting warm springs in 1933 colonel doherty also became deeply interested and acquired a firsthand knowledge of the research and after treatment work going forward in this country he saw the need for more widespread ordination coordination co of effort after discussing the matter with the president he conceived the idea of a gigantic series of parties which would enable millions of americans to do their share in the war on polio funds aid experiment under colonel dohertym Doher tys dir direction action the mammoth party organizing task was started A national headquarters was established in new york and civic minded persons were called upon to help the first series of parties was held on january 30 1934 the presidents bitt hda so far more than ww been raised by the anid amii ial severity seventy per cent remains it J infantile paralysis in the th M baina where it was raised raise dug rials sit e cent goes to the bp used for 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