Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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Certain groups of muscles are partially or completely paralyzed from within ZA to 72 hours. These paralyses of muscle groups are usually very unequally distributed and a whole muscle group or only part of one may be paralyzed. The involuntary structures are also involved at times, causing various trophic or vegetative disturbances. The nature of the changes in the spinal cbrd' are those of an acute inflammation, in which the blood supply to the cord may be cut off or the inflammation may cause swelling and pressure upon the nerve structures. This causes a partial or complete destruction of the nerve structures of the spinal cord. ' Modern study has shown the involvement of the nervous system, but it also shows that the disease may be in other than purely nervous structures. In certain patients the chief destruction is in the mid-brain tissues, from these, result paralyses of the cranial nerves, particularly of the eye-ball muscles and the muscles of the face. As a rule its worst effects are present within the first week of illness. The recovery of this disease is a long and tedious affair and may take as long as years. Recovery is y very slow, but there is a gradual improvement if the proper kind of treatment is pursued. Special quarantine measures are desirable for suspects of those sick from the disease. In the acute stages of the disease it is not known what may be beneficial. Lumber puncture helps some, ergot helps others. The best remedy is a serun obtained from the blood of persons who have had the disease and recovered. The recent development of a much stronger serum from the blood of a horse, which is still under experimentation, is expected to give a more effective remedy. Great care should be given to conscious muscle training. Electricity, massage, and other similar types of therapy are usually unavailing. The muscles must be made to perform by the conscious wish to perform movements. Swimming pools are very useful in the treatment of paralyzed muse es. Thus the search for knowledge in order to combat this dread disease is discovering new helos. As time goes on it is to be hoped that Infantile Paralysis will be less dangerous and its results less permanent. Nola Skillings '50

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