New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
Serum, Auto incubation
and AdrenaIin Prove
Best Remedies.
NEW PLEA IS MADE
TO 1000 FOR BLOOD
Deaths and New Cases Are
FeWer-ClubWOmen in
Disease Fight.

numbered eighty-three, and the deaths
twenty-one.
DR.. John S. Billings, Deputy Health
Commissioner, said yesterday that
three methods of treating infantile
paralysis were used in the hospitals
of the Department of Health, where
the victims of the epidemic were being
cared for.
At the Willard Parker Hospital DR..
Abraham Zingher and his assistants
are using the immune serum treat
ment; at the Kingston Avenue Hos
pital the Instrumentation treatment
withdrawing the spinal fluid Of pa
tient and injecting it into the muscles
Of the same patients being followed,
and the physicians at the Riverside
Hospital are using injections OF adre-
nalin as recommended by DR.. ). j.
Meltzer. of the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research. All the treat
ments are being used at the Queens
borough Hospital.
Add to Treatment Aids.
"The results Of these various meth
DDS of treatment are being carefully
tabulated, studied and compared" said
DR.. Billings, "and a great deal OF val
liable information is being obtained as
to the best methods of treating the dis
ease. We have already added much
to our store of knowledge concerning
infantile paralysis, and the results OBJ
tanned from the various treatments
have greatly encouraged us.
DR.. Abraham Zingher said yesterday
at the Willard Parker Hospital that ne
continued TO obtain excellent results
in the treatment Of cases by the inira-
spinal injection of immune serum, es-
pecially those cases in which the IN
lection could be made at the outset OF
the disease. The serum, he, said, ap
peared to have an almost immediate
effect in quoting the child and making
il less uncomfortable, and although
there was usually a slight reaction, &C
companied by a rising fever, so TAR
this had soon vanished, and the child
became stronger and the paralysis less
apparent -,
The effect ofthe serum was illus
trated yesterday by the case of little
girl. who was taken to the hospital
Yesterday morning about o'clock she
had been i'll for three days, and yester-
day afternoon had high fever, slight
paralysis of the muscles of the eye
and a slight affection of the legs.
At 6 o'clock last night the child,
who is a year and eight months old,
was carried into the operating room.
where DR.. Zingher made a lumbar
puncture, thrusting a hollow needle
into the child's spine. Through this
needle about twenty cubic centimetres
of spinal fluid were drawn off, and
about fifteen cubic centimetres OF
carefully prepared blood serum was
permitted to flow. by the force of
gravity, through the needle into the
spine.
Serum Helps Child.
Before the puncture was made the
child was crying and tossing about on
its pillow. Its cries lessened at al
most the instant the fluid began to
flow from its spine through the hollow
needle, and as soon as the serum be-
gan to enter the spinal canal the baby
ceased crying and lay quietly, its pain
apparently greatly relieved.
In the natural course of events,
without treatment, the paralysis,
which had begun to affect the child's
eye muscles. would have spread down
ward and attacked the respiratory
muscles Of the chest, an almost GER
tain cause of death. BY the use of
the serum, however. it is believed the
paralysis will be prevented from
spreading, and the baby probably will
leave the hospital with no disability
save the slightly paralyzed eye mus
cles. a condition which in all likeli-
hood can be relieved by surgical pro-
cedure.
DR.. Zingher and DR.. Samuel Parnass,
who is in charge of the Brooklyn sta
ton for the obtaining of blood, yester-
day urged former paralysis patients 70
give their blood for the preparation of
serum. DR.. Parnass is stationed al the
Brooklyn Offices of the Board OF
Health, at Flatbush Avenue Extension
and Fleet Street. from to o'clock
every afternoon, including Sundays. DR..
Zingher is at the Willard Parker Hos
pital between o'clock in the morning
and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and on
Saturdays from 8 to IL o'clock.
DR.. W. c. Fargo, of Bellevue Hos
pital will draw blood from volunteers
who apply there between and o'clock
IN the afternoon and s and IL at night.
More Pleas for Blood.
The Citizens Committee TO Obtain
Serum for Infantile Paralysis, of which
Lewis l.. Delafeld. jr. of 20 Exchange
Place, is chairman, will begin its active
campaign to-day. A letter Of appeal
will be sent to each of one thousand
former patients, whose names have
been obtained by the committee, and
they will be urged to visit one of the
hospitals and permit their blood to be
drawn. Both the letter and the state
ments of Dr. Zingher and DR.. Parnass
emphasize the fact that the operation
of drawing blood is painless, requires
but a few minutes and causes no Ill
after effects.
Chose who are unable to go to the
hospitals" says the letter of appeal,
"either because they cannot use the
customary means of conveyance or can
not 90 at the times stated, should COM
municate with John S. Billings, Deputy
Commissioner, at the Department OF
Health, 1879 Centre Street, whose tele-
phone number is Franklin $3.50. in or