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Excerpt from Experiments to Determine if Paralyzed Domestic Animals and Those Associated With Cases of Infantile Paralysis May Transmit This Disease
There still remains the hypothesis that certain animals may be carriers of the infection without becoming diseased. The infection may vegetate on mucous membranes without invading the central nervous system.
Hypotheses of this sort do not, as a rule, lead anywhere unless as guides to actual experiments which serve to test their validity. The material available for experimentation under the above hypotheses is so abundant that in planning some investigations to trace the virus of poliomyelitis into the lower animals we thought it best to begin with cases of paralysis not explainable as the result of injury, poisons or well-known infectious agents. Before detailing these experiments a brief survey of what is known of animal diseases simulating infantile paralysis 'erill be in order.
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