In the fall of 1914, I was asked by the State Board of Health of Vermont if I would undertake on their behalf the treatment of the cases of infantile paralysis occurring there in the summer of 1914, of which there had been 293. A private citizen had given to the State Board of Health a certain sum of money to be expended on an investigation into the epidemiology of the epidemic and on the treatment of the affected persons. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute consented to take charge of the epidemiology end of the inquiry, and I embarked on the enterprise of the treatment of these cases in December, 1914. The problem of the treatment of so large a group of cases was of itself a new and difficult one. The physicians of these cases were notified by the State Board of Health of certain centers where