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...addition to the laboratory studies, the Commission conducted an investigation in the field of the new cases reported to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in an effort to learn more of the cause and transmission of the disease, and gave skilled assistance to those afflicted. Dr. W. L. Aycock, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at the Medical School, is head of the practicing end of the Commission, and is leading the fight against the present epidemic...
...Aycock and his fellows have tried in vain to obtain a serum from the blood of artifically infected monkeys, for the monkey, although the only animal susceptible to the disease, is so sensitive that it cannot survive the attack of the paralysis germ. For this reason the Commission is requesting volunteers, survivors of the disease, to come forward with offers of their own blood. So far as results to date have been tabulated, the serum treatment seems a remedy for infantile paralysis if it is administered within the three days which ordinarily elapse between infection and actual paralysis...