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Show Girl, Turning To Stone Saved By Physicians LOS ANiJKLKS, Aug. 29 H'.lli--Facing almost certain death four months ago as a sunerer from calcinos, a disease that has stricken strick-en only 22 other persons in medical medi-cal history. Trudy von Havens-berg, Havens-berg, pretty 10-year-old high school graduate, today virtually was recovered and looking for a job. When her case came to the at- . --.J tention of the orthopedic clinic at Oi her.il Hospital lour months ago, the girls limbs were encased partly in stony shells and the area of calcification .veined to be increasing increas-ing A diet delicient in calcium, prescribed pre-scribed on the theory that too much lime would increase the stony accumulation bem-a th her skin, failed to help Mjss Ravens-bo Ravens-bo rg. i Knducrinc specialists then took charge of the case and a series ol metabolism tests were made. A hormone of the parathyroid gland, which gove-ns the amount of calcium in the t ssues, was pie-scribed pie-scribed although physicians were hesitant as it was known to rob the bones of calcium, their mo;;t i essential element. |