Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1913 — BABY WITH A RARE DISEASE [ARTICLE]

BABY WITH A RARE DISEASE

Kansas City Physicians Puzzled by Strange Case—Very Youhg Child. •Kansas City.—A case rare even to the older physicians of Kansas is attracting the attention of members of the resident and visiting staffs at a hospital there. A brfby one month old has suffered half its little life with streptococclco polyarthitls. which translated into less technical terms raeans an Inflammatatlon of joint cavatles caused by germs known as streptococci. The disease produced in joint cavities by these germs is not so rare among older persons, and usually is not very difficult to cure. There is an anti-streptococcic serum which is generally used with good effect, but in this case the wonder of the physicians is the age of the infant. Five places are Infected. Two weeks ago the disease started tn the baby's right shoulder and spread to the knee, wrist, the jaw and a place on its bead. The baby has been in hospital only one week, but it is much improved, and there has been no further spread of the disease. Physicians say it has a Aghting chance of recovery if it can stand the long strain of eradicating the germs with the serum. It Is not kdown when infection was started and no trace of the disease has been found in the Infant’s parents. The baby no longer cries and its temperature ifi about normal. It nurtes regularly and is in all respects, outside its strange and unaccountable disease, entirely normal.