Evening star., 1914-07-12

nectcut and other States send patients for the special
treatment that yet is available nearer home
This hospital may be taken typical of the newest
and best in the realm of preventive surgery so that
reference to its work will to demonstrate the
possibilities in for other communities deciding
take up orthopedics and use such institution in
determined effort prevent children from growing up
deformed. At this hospital visitors surprised find
that the distorted bones of children and adults
brought into place and held there by mechanical and
other means, while the patients in many
undergoing muscular education following the
of electrical and magnetic currents
By means of daily treatment, consisting of cleo
tricity, massage, and what appear to be gymnastic
exercises, but really physical therapeutics
derul improvements and advances have recently been
made handling 1nfantlle paralysis, spinal curvature
and kindred ailments which in the old days resulted in
making lifelong incurables Little children who have
been born helpless crpples, and many who have been
made so by illness injury, are being treated by en-
tirey methods, which have already recorded an
astonshngy large percentage of permanent cures So
remarkable indeed have been the results thus far OBJ
taned that surgeons of international repute say
qualledly that, by proper appreciation OF the poss
bities of available therapeutic and mechanical agen
cies the time is at hand when rarely, if ever, will
one encounter any paraytic deformity.
The visitor who goes to the hospital in the afternoon
of any weekday will find a crowd of mothers and
fathers with their children seeking treatment in the
clinics In fair weather from two hundred and
fifty three hundred patients of all ages and natonal
ties flock daily to the dispensary. The majority
boys and girls, nearly thiryve hundred of whom have
been treated the last years for nante paralysis
THIS dread malady is epidemic not only in New
York, but in Connecticut Vermont, and many other
localities. Unfortunately there comparatively few
cities wherein it may be treated the following letter
from father at Scranton, Pennsylvania, indicates:
"For the last four years, he writes, II had noticed
that my Williams leg partly paralyzed, and
that it gradually shortening, that he forced
to walk his toes being unable put his foot down.
worried greatly and pictured his inevitable future if
he handicapped in this way. Although l appealed
to our local physicians they informed that nothing
could be DONE Finally was told that if anything could
be accomplished it would be in New York City, the
Hospital for Deformites and Joint Diseases. My boy
back home wonderfully improved; in fact, the
neighbors have never stopped talking about the
markable change shown by him in such short time.
The doctors in Scranton cannot get over it.
When child afflicted with paralysis is brought to the
hospital for it put under of cleo
tricty strong be borne for five minutes, to
reduce the blood and serum compression the
cells and this is followed by six-minute uniform, in
terrupted galvanic current Massage mechanical vi
braton is next given by to improve the vi
taity of the affected limb.
But the third step of the treatment for nfantile
paralysis, the so:caed muscular education" is