Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-01
TREATMENT PROVING OF VALUE
~POliOmyelitis Patients Regaining
Use of Their Muscles.
DR.. H. ". LOVett, Eminent OrthOpedio
Surgeon, Coming to Vermont to
investigate Results of a Visit
SIX Months Ago.

DR.. Robert W. Lovett, an eminent
urthopedic surgeon and specialist in re-
gard to the treatment of patients crippled
as a result OF infantile paralysis, who
about six months ago made visits to
several points IN Vermont to prescribe
treatment for such individuals. will mako
another visit to the same places during
the frst of next month. While DR.. Lovets
Wall mold clinics for the purpose Of ascer-
tanning the progress made by the patients
towards recovery and change the treat
inent IT need be. he will also hold meet
ings with physicians at which he and
other specialists of prominence will
speak.
DR.. Lovett will be accompanied by Miss
". G. Wright, the nurs. who assisted
him IN his work during his first visits,
He will visit central points which cover
the State, his first stop being made az
Barton on Friday, July . This clinic
will continue over Saturday IL necessary.
A meeting Of the physicians Of the north
eastern counties Of the State will be held
at st. Johnsoury on the afternoon of
July 10, when DR.. Francis 4. Fraser Of
the department of medicine of tina
Presbyterian hospital at New York. Dr..
UiO - hAAiocS Vi Nhe h'Itll'l II"
%stitute, who has bean at the laboratory
at the Medical College. where investiga.
ton as to a possible cure for the disease
is being carried on, and Dr.. Lovett will
speak.
on Monday, July u, DR.. Lovett Will
conduct the second clinic at the Heaton
hospital In Montpelier for patients in that
vicinity. This clinic will continue until
Ofnndaxy poo~ tS ~.
July 10, a meeting for the physicians of
the central portion of the State will ba
held at Montpelier. This meeting Will
be similar to the one at st. Johnsbury.
On Wednesday, July "a. DR.. Lovett will
be at st. Adams. The next day will be a
special day at the health officers school
in this city. the program for that day
being devoted largely to poliomyelitis.
Doctors Lovett, Fraser and Amoss will
speak, and it 10 possible that DR.. Simon
Flexner, director of the Rockefeller In
stitute at New York, will also mako an
address.
DIR. Lovett will conduct his second
clinic at the Mary Fletcher hospital in
this city on Friday. July Is, concluding
Saturday noon. and his trip will be COM
pleted with his second clinic held at tho
Rutland hospital at Rutland.
The treatment which was prescribed by
DR.. Lovett on his first visits to Ner-
mont has been Of much valuo to the
patients who visited him. Many of them
have made wonderful progress towards
the recovery Of the use OF the muscles
which was lost as a result Of the
paralyzing plague as IT swept over YER
mont, leaving in it's path children and
adults, who previously had been in ths
best Of health. with useless arms and
legs, and some who could control but a
few muscles in their entire bodies Sew
eral who were unable to take a step are
now able to walk out. The entire work
Is under the direction of the State board
OF health and was made possible through
the generosity Of an anonymous henefac-
Tor.