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HOWTO MAKE CHILDREN GROW


HOWTO MAKE CHILDREN GROW
French Specialist Has Method for Adding to
the Human Height.
New York Herald
The question has often been asked,
Is there any method by which low
sized persons can become taller? And
up to the present the answer has al
most invariably been in the negative.
Now, however, a distinguished French
specialist assures us that if proper
/ steps be taken at the proper time per-
sons who would otherwise be of less
than moderate stature can be, so to
speak, forced upward to a normal
height. This specialist is DIR.
Springer, who is the guiding spirit Of
the laboratory of the Faculty of Medi-
cine in Paris, and his views on this
subject are clearly set forth by DIR. Ca
banes in an article which appears in
the current number of the Reru des
, Rerues.
With the object OF artificially in
creasing the height of human beings.
DR.. Springer recently made several ex-
periments in Paris, the main reason
which impelled him to do so being
the discovery of the rather startling
fact that the stature of French men
and women has for some time been
steadily decreasing. The latest statis-
tics bear ample testimony in this di-
rection and, furthermore, they show
that while the average stature has de-
creased in France, it has increased in
Russia.
DIR. Springer's first experiments were
made on dogs. Being satisfied that
proper food would work wonders in
the desired direction, he experimental
on several puppies, giving to some or
dinary food and care and to others
special food and novel hygienic treat
ment. The result was that in the
case of the latter there was an increase
in growth or stature varying from six
to eight centimeters. How remarka.
bic this was will be seen when it is
stated that during the same time the
growth OF the other puppies was only
| increased from two to four centime-
ters. These experiments satisfied DIR.
Springer of one fact-namely, that
salts used in solution with cereals that
are being prepared as food produce a
powerful and beneficial effect on the
bony system of animals. He also
points out that the cereals which are
prepared as food should always be
fresh, and that the food after being
prepared should be used rs soon as
possible.
DR.. Springer next turned his atten-
ton to the growth of children, and
DIR. Cabanes assures us that his expert
ments in this direction have also
borne wonderful fruit. If there is one
thing which DIR. Springer insists upon
it is that children, in order to grow
properly, must be supplied with an
abundance of fresh air. Even during
the night, he claims, there should be
a constant renewal of absolutely pure
air in the childs bedroom, since it is a
well-known fact that air in sleeping
rooms is easily polluted ard in this
state tends to lessen the strength and
delay the growth of children. He fur
ther maintains that the influence Of
the sunlight and even of colors must
be taken into account, and that due
care must be taken to exclude as far
as possible all colors which have de-
pressing and eEervating effect.
Finally he points out that sure
way to promote the growth and in
crease the stature OF children is by
keeping their breathing organs free
from distractions and in as sound a
condition as possible. Cases occur
among children, he says, in which the
pharynx and adjacent region suffer
through hypertrophy. and if such
children are stunted and weakly the
reason is because the penetration OF
the oxygen OF the air, which is one OF
the most important factors of growth,
is impeded in this way. DIR. A. Robin
and other distinguished specialists
have shown that a child absorbs .
much larger quantity of oxygen than
a man, and, furthermore there is
ample testimony in proof Of the fact
that the growth OF children from
whose breathing organs distractions
have been removed is usually four
times more rapid during the three
months following the treatment than
is the case with children who are to
some degree prevented from absorbing
the necessary amount Of oxygen.
DR.. Springer's views and expert
ments are causing considerable COM
ment in the medical world, and in
view of his well-known skill and es.
tablished reputation there is little
doubt that the advice which he gives
will be carefully needed.
LAST Sunday Nick Olson, while en-
gagged in Frost's logging camp on
Lewis river, about three miles above
Etna, met with a fatal accident
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