Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leon Herbert Martin, public health director at Fort Worth, en couraged doctors by reporting success with a serum treatment for infantile paralysis. The treatment consisted of injecting serum from a patient recently recovered from the disease into the bloodstream of a new case. In five cases treated, paralysis was stopped. But, because paralysis may develop long after a patient seems cured, the certainty of Dr. Martin's serum treatment cannot be yet affirmed...
Since the cause and mode of transmission have not been definitely established, efforts to control the disease and prevent it have been along general lines. Disinfection is essential; antiseptic gargles are of questionable value, even probably harmful. After-treatment is of the greatest importance. If properly treated, deformities may, to a large extent, be prevented. During the acute stage, massage and exercise should not be resorted to, but the paralyzed part kept in its normal position through splints. To such orthodox treatment, Dr. Martin's serum is an experimental adjunct...
...behalf of hiss fellow trustees on this Foundation (George Foster Peabody of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Henry Pope of Chicago; James T. Whitehead of Detroit; Herbert N. Straus of Manhattan) invited Public Health Director Martin to take ten of the Fort Worth patients to Warm Springs for free treatment until each patient should be improved, "even if it takes three or four years...
...want to know more about the treatment of newspapermen in Haiti, read Occupied Haiti, just edited by The Writers Publishing Co., 9 West 64 St., New York. There is a chapter: "The Prison and the Press...
...Probably his worst trait," the Dowager Queen Marie says, "is that he loves to tease dogs and cats. He has been bitten several times by dogs, notably last summer, when the palace doctors gave him so much Pasteur treatment that he was sick for a fortnight...