The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-06
KEEP THE GROWING CHILD
 STRAIGHT

| PediatricS means the healing oi of children. A physician who specal- izes in the care and treatment o1 children in health and illness is g pediatrician or pediatrist (accent or at; pediatrician is accented on the trisI1).
 Orthopedics means keeping chil- dren straight or strengthening de- formities of children. A phyccian who specializes in the correcton of deformities of children is an ortho- pedist. His patients however, are not only children, but persons of any age who seek relief or correc- ton of any defect or deformity whether congential (present at birth or acquired as result of dis ease or injury.
 In literally hundreds of thou sands of instances orthopedc de- formities go untreated and uncor- rected in the period of growth and development (the early 'teens), eith- CT because parents have become so used to 1t that they are not medical treatment or because they regard 1t as manifestation of the child's del- icacy, weakness or frailty and rapid growth and try to believe it will ad- just itself in due time or that the child will "outgrow" it.
 This idea that a child will "out- grow" anything abnormal or inimi- cal to health or physical efficiency is deplorable when it pervades the mind of the parent, but it is repre- hensible when a doctor advances or sanctions it. It means nothing else but that you fordly hope and pray the child may get well or straight without proper treatment.
 Most commonly unrecognized and neglected deformity in the growing child is spinal curvature. It is unrecognized and neglected in the early teens chiefly because school children of ten to sixteen generally receive only cursory physical exan1- nations if any at all by school phy- sicians who have far more territory to cover in part-time schedule than any doctor can possibly man. age if the doctor makes 8 careful examination. And too often, owing to wrong attitude of parents or per- haps some school authorities, even If the school physician endeavorS to give thorough physical examir1a- tion his purpose is defeated by dress restrictions which in these days are absurd.
 Probably the important underly- ing or fundamental factor in nearly all cases of spinal curvature is poor tone" kind of f1abbiness of tis- sues, which accounts for weakness and fatigue, and is the manifesto ticn of nutritional deficiency, espe- cially defiency in the intake of or the assimilation of calcium and vitamin D iron and vitamin B com plex.
 TerpIn Hydrate
 Several people have told of get- ting marked relief from obstinate cough by taking terpin hydrate two- grain capsules. Please state just how these are used, and for how long. c. A. T)
 Answer-Terpin hydrate consists of large colorless crystals or white powder, with faint or no 0dor, and should not have an odor like tur- pentine. It may be taken in cap sules, pills or in solution in simple elixir, most conveniently one two- grain capsule after food three times a day, for say & week, for relief of obstinate chronic cough.
 Tough on Mucous Membranes
 The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, of stuffy nose and raspy throat and mucous membranes scar not so much worry about fuel. but we begin to understand now that your teachings are much more to the point than we ever realized before. (H. W. Al
 Answer-Return of the season of Indoor heating means return to the desert, extreme dryness of Che air, for most people. and this is account able for much mucous membrane and skin trouble through the wii- ter. Send stamped self-addressed envelope for pamphlet on "Humidi- ficatior". A couple buckets Of water evaporated In the air daily wifi make eli the difference ia Che world in the indoor climate.
 Therapeutic Hoifoot Positive and quick cure for "ath.