Evening star., 1932-08-07
BY HELEN WELSHIjfER.

BY HELEN WELSHInER.
TT won't be very long until children VIII De
able to grow tall they want to grow.
Physicians will have the proper medicine
all ready to administer to youngsters who
have trouble acquiring the proper number
of inches.
It's all very simple too. Just dose of liquid,
or an injection, taken regularly. But stunted
and retarded bodies will stretch themselves TO
the point that they tried to reach and couldn't
without some outside help.
The Brush Foundation in CleTeland is re-
sponsible for the discovery The Foundation Is
a medical center that is interested In the proper
DEVELOPMENT Of children. Several years ago II
was decided that something should be done
about stature. AS a result, not long ago, Dr.
Theodore zuck one of the research associates
of the foundation announ 2ed that ne hao SUE
ceeded in making people grow.
The ductless glands con,aln a large NUMBER
of substances. Some of them function as they
should. Others won't act at all in some people
When they don't, scmet.mes people stop grow
inp However when they removed, MADE
into something more potent and taken back mto
the system they wake up and start to Work.
DR. Zuck acted on this theory.
lie put various things together. over ana
! ever again Finally he combined the thy-
roid, gonad and pituitary products.
He took some subjects. Children from the
public schools Dwarfs. Men who would have
felt much more comfortable if they had meas
ured up little mere in crowd
But first he had to make sure that their bone
ends were open. Every bore is constructed In
sucn way that it coccs when the individual
has reached the age at which his bones are sup
posed to have grown as long as they can
AS rule this age is between 18 and 81 years.
u,bs,, tho ends have closed there is no hope
of further growth.
Now and then, though, in some people, the
bone ends stay open, for while, hopefully
wA1ing There is one case on record, at the
Blush Foundation, of a 36-year-cld man VINO
was still waiting to grow. Another patient was
80 Years old. But there was hope, for his bone
enus we're not closed. Dwarfs, too delay the
closing of the ends of the anatomical structure.
TvERY patient had to be examined carefully.
Z X-Rays showed the condition of the bones.
When the openings were wide, the medical
authorities nodded their heads approvingly and
set to work When they were closing they shook
their heads and sent the patient home. Such
cases wouldn't have time to receive any benefit
from the new stimulant. 1t was too bad, per-
haps but it couldn't be helped.
The experiments started. Sometimes it was
necessary to give the hormones, the growth
stimulants are called, in the shape of liquid.
taken exactly like tonic. Other peope Ie-
sponded better to Injections There were those
who could grow faster when the medicine was
taken in capsules.
The patients were examined every three
months. If they growing too fast and
this is likely to happen in artificial growth
than in natural growth, DR.. zuck says
they were given smaller quantities Of the medl-
cine.
If they weren't making much progress as
they should have been doing, the doses were in
creased Every effort made to strike just
the right tempo.
Some people regained three years growth IN
nine months. Others five and six years behind
the procession were Speeded up and in a short
time lacked only couple of years Of being en-
tirely normal -
THERE Is really rs years OF careful study
back Of the amazing discovery.
DR.. tt Wingate Todd, who is the director OF
the foundation and professor of anatomy at
Western Reserve University, started to examine
childfen's bediesk quarter of a century ago. He
decided that if he studied enough children, care
fully and completely, he could ascertain the
normal rate Of development Of the human body
From his findings, he could chart normal de-
Velopment.'
He and his assistants set to work. They used
the X-Ray 10 help them. They divided chill
dren into groups; those whose ages ranged