New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-27

diagnosed as paralysis unless there is
actual paralysis present.
THE statement credited 20 Or. Stack
is absurd" declared Or. Amos, at is
perfectly possible to have poliomyelitis
and At the same time have no paralysis.
IL can be easily determined whether or
not a patient has the disease before
Paralysis appears through a study Of
the spinal fluid and by other clinical
methods"
Or. Amos also said he had never
heard of salvarsan being used in the
treatment of infantile paralysis, as was
suggested yesterday by one Of the Of
fcials of the Department of Health.
The drug has been used on monkeys
which have been inoculated with the
disease but DR.. Amos said that the re
suits obtained were not such as TO
recommend its use on human paralysis
patients.
Physicians Of the Rockefeller lnsti-
tute are using blood serum, together
with other methods, in treating the
sCventy-fve cases in the Institutes hos
pital at White Plains. None Of the pa
tients has died, while six have entirely
recovered
Use of the immune blood serum has
extended to virtually every city IN
which infantile paralysis has appeared,
and in hospitals in New York and in
other cities increasingly large quaint
ties Of blood are being given by volun-
teers who have recovered from the dis
ease.
Children Give Blood.
Five boys and one girl. inmates of
the Garden City branch of the Home
of St. Giles the Cripple, permitted a
physician of the State Board of Health
10 draw blood from their arms yester
day They were Harold Buffhm. fifteen
years old; August Riegel, fourteen;
Stanley Padgett, sixteen; Nelson Sheri-
dan. fourteen; Earl Jamison. fifteen,
and Jessie Huyck, fifteen. Each of them
had suffered from the disease and had
been crippled.
Four former paralysis patients gave
eighteen ounces &C blood at the Willard
Parker Hospital yesterday, and eight
ounces were drawn from a man who
had never had the disease. This latter
blood will be used to make the normal
blood serum with which experiments
are being made. DR.. ". c. Fargo pro
cured eleven ounces of blood from two
persons, a woman and boy, who ap-
six and seven ounces. respectively.
DR.. Fargo said last night that
Bellevue is equipped 10 draw blood and
prepare the serum for use in the treat
ment of cases. Volunteers should visit
the hospital between the hours Of .
and in the afternoon or and II at
night The Bellevue Hospital is not
using the normal blood serum. and per-
sons desiring to give blood, who have
never had paralysis, should not 60
there, but to Willard Parker.
Advertisements for blood with which
20 make the serum were inserted in
several New York newspapers yester-
day by DR.. George Draper. of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search. In collecting the blood, how
ever DR.. Draper is acting for the State
Board of Health. and will pay the eX-
penses Of volunteers and recOmpensc
those in need Persons who wish 10
avail themselves Of DR.. Diapers offer
should apply any day, including Sun
day, at 2:15 o'clock, at ll6 East Sixty
third Street.
Scientists of the Rockefeller Insti-
tute have under observation a four
weeks-old calf. which was sent there
yesterday from the Brooklyn Home for
Crippled. Blind and Defective Children
az Port jefferson, Long Island Several
days ago the calf developed symptoms
similar TO those appearing in infantile
paralysis. and later actual paralysis ap-
peared in each Of its legs. Although
heretofore no scientist has been able TO
find any connection between the vari-
Gus forms of animal paralysis and in
fantile paralysis it was thought best
10 send the calf to the Rockefeller In
stitute for close observation and eX-
animation.
The thousands Of paralyzed animals
which were reported 10 the Health De-
partment recently appear to have eN-
listed only in the imaginations of eX-