Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1910 — CURE FOR DEADLY DISEASE [ARTICLE]

CURE FOR DEADLY DISEASE

Discovery at Rockefeller Institute is Declared Beneficial In In* fantite Paralysis. Philadelphia.—A discovery thaf. may lead to a cure for infantile paralysis, a deadly disease of childhood believed to be epidemic at present, Is announced by Drs. Simon Flexner annd Paul A- Lewis of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York city. The announcement appears in the Journal of the American Medical association. As a result of experiments an monkeys Inoculated with the virus thn» causes infantile paralysis, a serum has been found that in some cases prevents the disease from developing and in others cures it soon after it appears. • , The investigators also have found it is possible to vaccinate monkeys with an “immune" serum which will prevent them contracting the disease. Infantile paralysis attacks all classes of children. If a victim does recover it almost Invariably is deformed for life.