Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
How They
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BY WAGNER WHITE

x into this life i'm a Los Angeles, Cal. no
- pital on December H. 1889. with h
skeleton looking as if he had been in an aut
mobile wreck
Twenty Of his bones his arms, legs. ri
were fractured
All babies commonly cry out when a
first is taken into their lungs; it's a norm
reaction. But baby David's newborn CT
was one Of agony. He was bundle Of pal
He weighed Ga pounds and seemed Z
first despite walls far too loud for such
small person, to be perfectly normal
His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Hatto
were overjoyed They love children. Tn,
already had two girls and a boy Doren
II; Sydney, 10, and Mary. land they want,
another boy.
Two hours after David's birth the atten
ing physician. dropping his professional 70
for the moment and happy that the Hatton
had got their wish. looked over into David
crib He wasn't thinking about medical pro
lens, he was just an adult interested in a ne,
yowling baby But what ne saw tensed hi
quickly back to his professional role
Both Of David's arms were bent at vi
usual angles
The doctor took hold Of one OF the lit
arms and Strengthened it. II might
as we'll have been rubber. 1t could
be bent. with very little pressure.
in any direction
The baby was rushed under the
X-ray. One look, and tragic con-
dition was revealed.
David had "infantile
fragilitas ossium'; or. more
simply fragile bones of the
newborn Sometimes seen
in children OF from : to II
years il is rare in the new
born-is nearly always
fatal
Tho doctor had dread
full thing to tell the smiling
parents. David's chance TO
live was about one in a II
thousand
II he lived his child
hood might be a nightmare.
with a new fracture at each
bump or fall.
There seemed nothing TO
do. but to wait for tragedy.
David had come to The
End Of the Road or il was
in sight before he scarce uNxz
~ had opened bis eyes on w.
the world
But Fate interviewed NJ
In Los Angeles is
clinic OF physicians who
have made startling depar-
lures from usual medical o
practice in treating bone
fractures Whereas frac- -
lures usually are treated by
setting the bones applying
splints and letting Nature
take ner course. these ply
sicians treat fracture by
giving the patient medicine.
dose of medicine for a fracture. tt
method is so revolutionary it is just beir
reported to the medical profession throue
official channels. 1t was developed over mar
years of study and experimentation.
David was taken to these doctors. The
studied David's blood. A sample was take
and analysed for it's chemical content.
already was apparent that David had mi
era and gland deficiency - that is, that the
were not minerals enough in his blood
keep his bones at the proper density
What the doctors wanted to know, stud
ing the blood, was just how much calciu
and how much phosphorus there was
David's blood. For the doctors, in the
studies. had made what seems to be an anna
ing discovery and that was that the hum;
MIND and BODY are most efficientIN Al
MOST EVERY WAY-when the proportion
of calcium and phosphorus in the blood a
ALMOST EXACTLY THREE TO ONE; thr
parts of calcium to one of phosphorus.
And. of course. the quantities at-tho
ratios must be between certain limits. The
must not be too much or too little of either.
These limits were found TO be: For ca
cium. 10.5 milligrams to II milligrams p
100 cubic centimeters; for phosphorus, 80 to
milligrams per 100 cubic centimeters. "
need remember the figures only for cor
parison with those for David.
Within these limits. if the proportions
the three parts of calcium to one of pho
pherus were maintained, all would be we
But disturb those proportions and dire thing
the doctors found. begin to happen to Il
human body-and even the mind. Dependir
on the degree of imbalance of these chen
Gals, and, on other factors varying with ea'