Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
|IMBECILE, DEAF, BLIND, MADE
NORMAL BY OSTEOPATHY
Baby Pronounced ncurabe Last November Now Sees
and Shows That 1t Is In Fine Physical and Mental Shape


Philomena Narducci, two years old
daughter of Michael and Nellie Mar
ducci, Of 519 F'itzwater street, was
taken before Judge Raymond Mac
Nellie, IN the juvenile division of the
Municipal Court, on November 2 last,
and it was there recorded that the in
fant was blind, deaf, imbecile and in
durable.
The same baby, normal in mind,
with its sight restored, its hearing
acute and robust and healthy in every
way; its face bubbling with smiles
and its sparkling eyes looking all
about it was taken before Judge Mac
Nellie yesterday afternoon.
Judge MacNeille could scarcely be-
lieve the picture before him. He pick
ed up a nursing bottle and waved it
at the baby. The baby smiled and
with its eyes followed the bottle as the
Judge waved it about. The baby cooed
and reached out its chubby fists for the
bottle.
The Judge Astounded
Papa, papa" said the baby's mo-
ther from behind. The baby twisted
its head to follow the sound 1t looked
for papa. Judge MacNeille declared
Philomena a perfectly normal baby
He marveled at the miracle.
Philomena Narducci will go down OF
the records of the Juvenile Court as al
osteopathic baby, for it was osteo
pathy that made Philomena's eyes see
her ears hear and her little, puny body
fieshy and healthy. Philomena, a:
bright now as any baby in Philadel
phia, responded in a remarkable way
to a treatment that was confined al
most wholly to the spine.
1t was through Judge MacNeill,
that osteopathy was resorted to as ;
last chance to restore the faculties O
the baby. When the mother and in
FAINT were taken into the court tn
plan was to have the baby committe,
to an institution for incurables. A
best it couldn't live more than thre
or four months it was said.
"Do you want to get rid of this ba
Tby?" Judge MacNeille said.
81 do not" the mother replied. ''
want my baby"
"Have you seen any doctors in re
garI to this baby?" the Judge asked.
"Six or seven," the mother answer
ed.
"And they give you no encourage
ment?"
"They say it is blind and an i'm
becile," the mother said.
Judge MacNeille was told that tn
baby had been in several hospitals. L
the Philadelphia Hospital it contract
ed measles and was placed in the iso
lation ward. 1t was discharged fror
other institutions. Everywhere the
said the baby was incurable.,
1t was at this point that Judge Mac
Nellie suggested osteopathy to tn
mother. She had never heard of oste
opathy, but agreed to let the child b
treated that way.
81 have tried everything" she sal
"I'll try anything if there is any hop
for my baby"
Judge MacNeille sent for DR. job
H. Bailey, an osteopathic physical
and member of the staff of the me-
Osteopathic Hospital.
"There is no money in this case
the people are. very pOor,' Judge Mac
Nellie said. "Will you take it ?"
"If it is hard enough-yes," D
Bailey said.
So the arrangement was made TIL
Judge ordered that the mother tax
her baby home and let the osteopathi
physician treat it.
The history of the case was submit
ted to Judge MacNeille yesterday. A
ter three treatments an improvement
was noticed and after six treatment
@ the baby began to relish solid foe
which previously it had no taste for
The Sight Began to Come
Evidence that the sight was man
tested about a month ago. DR.. Bale,
who had been treating the baby thre
times a week, reduced the treatment
to two a week then.
1t was plainly evident that the il
FAINT could distinguish light from darl
ness. There were slight evidences of