Medicine: Small Comfort

Two world authorities on infantile paralysis, with laboratories in Manhattan, last week issued their opinions on the epidemic which afflicted Atlantic seaboard cities last summer and autumn (TIME, Dec. 21, et ante). The opinions gave small comfort to parents who were glad to have that disease off their minds for a few months.

Dr. Simon Flexner believes "we have a perfect right to believe that with our pres-ent knowledge of the manner in which the microbes of the disease behave, the aim of immunization will be accomplished."

Dr. William Hallock Park now was...

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