Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

of the thyroid gland), for example, Is one OF
the factors which repress development both
of body and mind. Social conditions have
marked effect so that the high-grade child is
about nine months in advance OF the average
on our physical and psychological tests.
TT is easy to see how we apply our
methods to the precise registration of the
effect of ricketts, measles, dietetic disorders,
infantne paralysis. chest troubles and other
n,isfortunes lying in wait for our growing chill
dren. We can also gauge the undernourfshed,
the mentally duh and the eeble-minded.
Thus by our observations We can provide
the pediatrician and the practitioner in pre-
Ventive medicine sure guide by which they
may the better understand their patients.
In the light of this clearer understanding
and definite registration of the handicaps under
which mankind labors, we apply, ourselves to
practical race improvement"
n LII these conclusions are not the result Of
any haphazard measurements OF super
fetal examination of a few subjects. They
come, instead. out Of detailed study Of more
than 1000 children, q study which Is Still going
on to clnch as unquestionable what DR.. Todd
has already learned.
More than 2000 human skeletons, apes, living
and dead, monkeys and ether animals are also
being studied for the comparative Information
that may be had from them.
Measurements surprising in number and de-
tail even the heretofore unequaled studies Of
the Germans, X-ray photographs OF every sig
nifcant feature in each body, precise inquiry
into each subject,s ancestry heritage, both
physical and social-alI combine today toward
the completion of the new yardstick that will
help pedfatrics, psychology and preventive
medicine in general to direct the gradual dc.
velopment of a healthier mankind.
For several years past collection OF ma
teriaI has been accommodating at Western Re-
serve, which today forms the basis of this i'm
portant research. The late DR.. Carl August
Hamaun, dean of the School of Medicine and
a nationally noted anatomist, has gained the
trust and cooperation of the city Of Cleveland,
so that this institution became the permanent
morgue' of the city. Bodies of deceased fellow
townsmen that would ordinarily have been
buried in the Putter's Field were sent to him
for study.
Each has been carefully and methodically
laid away in skeleton form, indexed measured
and numbered in what is the greatest
museum of its kind in the world.
TODAY, under the direction of Dr. r. Win
gate Todd, also one OF the worlds out
standing anatomists and anthropoIogists. the
Hamsnn Museum holds the largest collection OF
human skeletons, practically the only accumu-
lasion Of child skeletons and the largest an.
thropoid collection in the world
OF gorilla skeletons alone, this museum con-
tains half the number collected in the Museums
of the rest of the United States, Canada Great
Britain and continental Europe with its more
than 2,060 human skeletons Of known indfvid-
ualS, complete with their records it is easily
the first. The second largest collection in the
world is only 500. that of Washington Univer-
sity ct st. Louis, says DR.. Todd