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A sixtccn-\car-old boy was treated at ilie 

 liosi)ital for paralysis of the face. When lie 

 was one and a half years of age he suffered 

 an attack of infantile paralysis which resulted 

 in loss of control of the muscles of the right 

 side of his face and of his right arm. For 

 fourteen years, day and night, that boy's 

 right eye was staring ojien. He could not 

 close it. He could not use his right arm. His 

 appearance was repellent. After six months 

 of treatment he was able to close his eye and 

 to wrinkle his forehead. The affected side of 



lis face became normal. 



Dr. Frauenthal treats infantile paralysis by 

 means of electricity and massage. Whatever 

 muscles are affected are also treated electrical- 



y. A muscle wliich cannot be contracted by 

 will, may be contracted by an electric current. 

 In this way the muscles wliich do not respond 

 to the patient's will are kept active and 

 developed until thej- can be controlled by the 

 mind. The treatments last but a few minutes 

 at a time, so that the child's vitality is not 

 exhausted. The current is so carefully regula- 

 ted that the child docs not feel any pain. 



Massage is given regularly. If a child's 

 arm or leg is affected by infantile paralysis 

 that limb is strangely cold. Massage will 

 raise the temperature of the affected member 



A boy being treated for tubercular joints. He is 

 wearing a plaster cast over the affected hip and knee 



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The operating room, showing the surgeons completing an operation on a diseased knee-joint, and 

 a group of visiting surgeons watching. On another cot is a patient waiting under an anaesthetic 



