Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1920 — ALL DUE TO MALNUTRITION [ARTICLE]

ALL DUE TO MALNUTRITION

I- - ■ - ——. Various Diseases of Infancy and Childhood Thkt Can Be Traced to , . Undernourishment Practically all varieties at malnutrl(ioD occurring during ’ Infancy and early childhood tend to terminate In rickets, a disease characterized by softenipg ctf'the bones and consequent deformity. The essential feature of rickets, says Dr. E. Pritchard. In the British* Medical Journal, is the want of calcification or mineralization of developing bone, and this,, in Its turn. Is due to the existence of requirements for calcium, which for the time being are mere urgent than those of develop- । Ing bone. These urgent Requirementsare the necessity for neutralizing add . bodies in, the blood; In other words, to neutralize of compensate an existing addosta Doctor Pritchard,argues that all chronic conditions at malnutrition, of whatever kfnd or from whatsoever cause arising, finally terminate ini an of which means that . children who do not get proper nourishment k fair way to become deformed, *