New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

nccticu. and other States send patients for the special
treatment that as vet IS not available nearer home
Tbi, hospital NAV be taken a, typical Of the newest
and best in the realm Of preventive surgery 50 that
some reference 10 il, work will % demonstrate the
possibilities in store for other communities deciding u
take up orthopcdlcs and use such an institution III
determined ciior, 10 prevent children from growing up
dciorincd ~ this hospital visitors are surprised to ma
that the distorted bones Of children and adults are
brought into place and held there by mechanical and
other means, while the patients IN many cases are
Undergoing muscular education, following the Use
oi electrical and magnetic currents.
By means ii daily treatment. consisting 81 cleo
triG,v. massage, and what appear 10 be gymnas'c
exercises but are really physical therapeutics won
dcrtul Improvements and advances have recently been
made in handling inantilc paralysis. spinal curvature,
and kindred ailments which I'm the oh days resulted IN
making lifelong incurabcs. Little children who have
been born helpless cnpplcs, and many who have been
made So by lines or injury being treated by en-
rircv new methods. which have already recorded an
astonishingy large percentage Of permanent cures ;"
remarkable indeed have been the results thus Tar "p-
tanned that surgeons Of international roputc say UNI
qualifcdy that. by proper appreciation OF the posi-
bitics Of available therapeutic and mechanical agcn-
ci,s the time is At hand when rarely. II ever VIII
one encounter any paraytic dciormty.
The visitor who goes to the hospital in the afternoon
Of any weekday will find a crowd Of mothers ana
fathers with their children seeking treatment IN the
various clinics In air weather from TWO hundred ana
fifty t. three hundred patients Of all ages and nationals
ties flock daily to the di-pcnsary. The majority are
bows and girls. nearly rhiryiyc hundred Of whom have
been treated in the las, years for ntantic paralysis
THIS dread maady is epidemic not only IN New
York. bu, in Connecticut Vermont, and many other
localities Unfortunately there are comparatively IT,"
cities wherein it may be treated as the following letter
from a father at Scranton. Pennsylvania, indicates;
For the last four years. he writes. Il had noticed
that my son Williams leg was partly paralyzcd ana
that il was gradually shortening, 50 that he was forced
to walk On his toes. being unable TO put his foot down
| worried greatly and pictured his inevitable future II
ne was handicapped in this way Although appealed
70 our local physicians. they informed me that nothing
could bc done Finally wa, told that # anything could
b, ACCOMPLISHED it would be- in New York City, at the
Hospital for Dcfornitics and Joint Diseases My boy
came back home wonderfully improved; IN tact, the
ncghbors have never stopped talking about the re-
markablc change shown by him IN such "a short time.
The doctor, in Scranton cannot get over IT,.
When child afflicted with paralysis Is brought 70 the
hospital for treatment il put under current Of cleo
ricit, as strong AZ can be borne for FIVE minutes 10
reduce the blood and compression on the nerve
cells and this is followed by siX-mnutc uniform, IN
,rrip,cd galyanic current Massage mechanical VI
hra,ion j, next given 10y 10 improve the VI
alitv IF the affected limb
But the third step Of the treatment for lntanuc
,aralv-s. the new ,o-callcd muscular education, Is
hc mos, important Of all Here great benefit Is de-