Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-08-12
MANY GIVE BLOOD
TO FIGHT PLAGUE
Daughter of Hospital Official
One of the First to
Offer Aid
PROFFERS OF HELP
FROM OTHER STATES

NEW YORK, Aug 12.-Ame Alidort.
fourteen, a daughter Of the vice-pres-
ident Of the Peoples Hospital, Of so
West 18TH Street, went yesterday af-
ternoon with her family physician to
the Willard Parker Hospital
IF my blood can save only one vic
tim from suffering" said the girl,
who had infantile paralysis eleven
years ago, Il don't mind undergoing
the pain"
The little girl was one of eight who
offered their blood yesterday TO Dr.
Abraham Zingher Six were accepted.
Among them we're Miss Grace NJ.
Lyle. Of COZ Fifth Avenue, and male
university student who would not
give his name
Amounts varying from three to
eight ounces we're extracted from
each. Thirty-two ounces. or one quart
of blood was taken from the six. One
man had had the disease twenty-seven
years ago. Offers to give blood have
come in from New Jersey, from
Washington, and from all over New
York State.
The blood is made into a serum.
the action Of which is somewhat sim
liar to the diphtheria anti-toxin II is
/ injected into the spinal column and
helps the patient to throw off the dis
ease. It is not a remedy. But ply
sicians believe that patients so treat
ed stand a great deal better chance
tsrfv.a ~ ~ oha hu n
those who ire not so treated Of be-
ing free FROM the lameness that often
follows.
Experiments with Apes.
Experiments made with anthropoid
apes lead physicians to believe that
the serum may be valuable also as a
preventative. Il is thought that II
children Of a family where there is a
case OF pollomelitis are inoculated
with the serum, immunity from the
disease may result The experiments
however, have as yet not been COM
plete enough, it is siad. to warrant
the practice. Nor, indeed. has blood
in sufficient quantity to make the
necessary serum been obtained.
Fourteen OF the 900 infantile par
alysis patients at the Willard Parker
Hospital were treated yesterday
Special attention is being paid to the
six cases first cared for in this way
Special nurses are detailed to each
patient, noting every change in tenn.
perature. every reaction the sufferer
shows. Three Of these cases were al
most para,yzed when the serum was
administered: in the other three. tn,
blood was injected when patients were
in the fever stage. Slight paralysis o
the respiratory and swallowing mus
Giles set in yesterday in one Of thes'
last three. The condition of the otEe
two has improved markedly.
Early Treatment Best.
The serum Is most effective, II Il
said, when applied in the early STAGE
of the disease. Injections are mad
several times in twenty-four hours fo
number of days. The patients tenn
perature has usually sunk to norma
after the second treatment. Fiel,
workers of the hospital are locating
cases OF the disease in the early stage
and in many cases are applying tn
serum.
Zingher yesterday, that we are deal
ing with disease of unknown origin
unknown dissemination, and unknown
period of incubation. We canno
therefore. draw many conclusion
when comparatively few cases hav
been treated with the serum. Whs
we have observed. however. of tn
! treatment, warrants the continuatio
l Of its use"
r Writing to allay the fears OF othe
S donors, young man from Brooklyn
- from whom eight ounces Of blood wer
+ taken, told DR.. Zingher yesterday ths
n an increased appetite was the onl
= after effect he experienced.
!. Ready TO be Called.
r. 81 will be ready in a few weeks
j said the letter. Ito undergo the sam
d experience. Should I be needed b'
S tween now and September 1. you hay
o but to call on me for an immediai
response"
The first case of infantile paralys
to be discharged as cured was that {
Joseph Noble, OF 1853 Warren Stree
Brooklyn. He was sent from III
y Kingston Avenue Hospital on Wee
y nesday. Josephs left leg Is in a plai
ter cast, and he may have to wes
a brace the rest of his life. Physician
ii believe that tht use Of the bloc
3 serum before paralysis had set
i might have saved the child from lame
is ness.
n He was put under the care OF D
]. Rushmore's clinic at the Long Il
land College Hospital. He will
given complete treatment, which col
y sists primarily OF massage. On a
4. count Of his age II is hoped that
h. may be saved from being a perm
L. nent crippl1.
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