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Infantile paralysis this year is mild; comparatively few deaths have resulted. So far as is known the disease is transmitted only from person to person. Nonetheless, health officials of affected communities have mobilized. In Boston the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission, functioning since 1916, was vigorously active, spotting cases, collecting serum. New York City appropriated $75,000 emergency funds. A battalion of orthopedic nurses was concentrated in Brooklyn to care for the anticipated cripples. Stations were set up to take blood from convalescents, best treatment for infantile paralysis...
...city, avoided their children upon returning home until after they had changed clothes and gargled. Child campers in New England, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were forbidden visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken by the disease in middle life, gave a pint of his blood. He did likewise...
...child shows such symptoms he should be put to bed and a doctor called. Serum can check the disease in its early stages. But if paralysis sets in, the disease will run its course. If the child does not die, much time and effort will be needed to re-educate its paralyzed muscles...
Anaphylaxis, or sudden, violent death after serum injection, occasionally occurs. Immunologists are seeking explanation. The Chicago child had lingered a month. Her doctors searched the medical literature for enlightenment. In 1903, they found, Maurice Arthus, who is now professor of physiology at the University of Lausanne, had described the "Arthus Phenomenon" in rabbits. Repeated injections of a protein (serums are protein) make rabbits sensitive to the same protein. Subsequent doses become progressively more poisonous. Four years ago Dr. Wesley Emmett Gatewood of Portland, Ore. and Dr. Clarence William Baldridge of Iowa City reported six cases which seemed to prove...
...Serum taken from a horse had become poison to her. That was the medical lesson her death taught. Serums must not be discarded. They are too useful. But if a patient shows a bad reaction to a specific serum, the doctor should wait until the symptoms subside. If time is a factor, as it is in an attack of diphtheria, he should use a serum taken from a different kind of animal, to whose blood the patient is not sensitive. If horse serum was used at first, use serum from a goat, sheep or cow next time...