Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — CURES PARALYSIS BY KNIFE [ARTICLE]

CURES PARALYSIS BY KNIFE

Noted Gotham Surgeon Shows Many Child Cripples He Has Helped. __ New York. —A new operative treatment for spastic paralysis, or paralysis accompanied by spasms, which he declared had been successful, was explained here by Dr. William Sharpe at a meeting of the Medical Association of Greater New York. A dozen children, one paralyzed on one or both sides, attended to show what Doctor Sharpe had done for them. The pride of the little ones, as they showed how they were able to move once useless limbs, brought smiles to the medical men. Doctor Sharpe’s operation for the disease, which is a result of brain pressure, due to cortical hemorrhage, consists in decompression by direct operation on the skull, with removal of enough bone to give new brain room. Other methods have been devoted mainly to operations on the spinal nerve roots, the Injection of alcohol, or plastic surgery, such as the lengthening of tendons. A girl of four years, who never had talked up to the time of an operation a month ago, was able to toddle through the hall, led by the surgeon. Dr. William M. Leszyansky, In discussing Doctor Sharpe’s report, said he feared improvement would be only temporary, as in some other treatments of the disease. Women’s Club Has Smoking Room. New York. —The new Women's University club has a cozy smoking room. The club has 1,100 members.