Show Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH BY DR LLOYD ARNOLD Professor of B Becer and Dd Medicine of hao College or of v WW VY RICKETS Many pt persons ha hate e an Idea that rIckets Is a disease affecting young children of e r 1 she d parents tw only ly But ut thIs 18 s f not true truBe Rickets Is no respecter of wealth You havE but to walk in various varI- varI varIous ous sections ot of n a f city to notice that A thatA there are just about as many evidences r r ot of bow legs knock knock- knees bandy legs lega and arms pigeon e chests and square square- topped heads head a among the older persons In the well to- to todo todo do sections as there are In the poorer sections ThIs Is because when these persons were children doctors did not know so much about rIckets as wo we do today And It Is to be hoped that no child chUd within the reach rench of modern medical knowledge will ever have to endure the physIcal handicap caused by this dis dIs- dIs dIsease ease The only prevention and the only cure of rickets is an adequate supply of vitamin D Sunshine is a great source of this thia important vitamin It Is for thIs reason that sun suits are ideal clothIng for tor small chIldren whenever the temperature permits and why It Is good even In zero weather for a child chUd to have Its nap on a sunny the porch child of course to be kept warm and Its face tace protected from the direct glare of the sun Ultra vIolet light too Is a source of Vitamin D but except In a few Instances this is I expensive and Impractical The other great source of VItamin D Is In a very limited list ot of foods The oil from fish liver leads cod Ili Ih er oil oll Is the one with whIch we are I most next comes egg yolk and there Is s some Vitamin D In butter butterfat butterfat fat and just a trace ot of It in mothers mother's milk These foods also contain Vitamin A A a very Important health promoting and general anti e vitamin Since we are not able to control the number of sunshiny days our best hope of doing a away v ay wIth rickets Is to see that the child gets the amount of vitamIn D that he should have in the food he eats This is what medical science Is trying to do now It mIght be Interesting to not note here that rickets first manifested itself in Europe In the Sixteenth century when people v were ere more and more attracted to 11 lining Ing In clUes cities with their dark houses bouses and dark dalk narrow streets and when people generally v were ere lIvIng more ot of an Indoor life and babies were kept more and more In the house houseIn houseIn In thIs connection It might be inter inter- interesting esting also to note an old folk remedy that Is still used In England and Ire Ire- Ireland Ireland land Dr Langdon Porter child chUd specialist tells teUs of vIsIting the rural dis- dis distrIcts districts of England and Ireland and findIng a concoction there that the grandmother In the family puts up every autumn for the grandchildren She fills a jar with whole raw eggs and then covers It with sour wIne When the calcium In the shells Is dissolved she stirs the mixture vIg- vIg vIgorously vigorously strains out the membrane of the egg and then feeds a spoonful ot of the concoction to the children once or twIce a day throughout the wInter Modern science approves this remedy Is calcium In the egg shell vIta vIta- vItamins vitamins mins In the egg yolk and the acid of the wine Ine acts as a e SInce milk Is so generally a good food health authorities In thIs country are arenow arenow now experimenting with four methods ot of Increasing vitamin D In milk to the point where milk so treated will have havea a sufficIent amount ot of thIs vItamIn to pre present ent rickets The first Is to treat yeast with ultra vIolet light which In- In Increases increases creases the amount of VItamin D sev- sev several several eral hundred times This activated yeast Is fed to daIry cattle and they in turn secrete In the milk enough vitamin D for It to be anti rachitic VIsitors to the 1934 Century of Progress ress saw a demonstration ot of this vIt- vIt min D milk in a dairy herd at the south end of the grounds A second method Is to expose the dairy cows themselves to ultra violet vloet light so that they build up their own vitamin D and give milk with a hIgher of thIs Important A third method Is to treat the milk itself with ultra ultraviolet violet light and a fourth method Is to add to the milk In concentrated form a tasteless cod liver oil so thit the child gets both the milk mUk mUkand and the valuable cod liver oil at the same tIme It Is s difficult to say as yet which ot of these methods will pro prose proe e the best and It will be interesting to watch their Ite- Ite development All ot of them necessarily but unfortunately add to the tho cost ot of the milk But unless you can get this vitamin D milk milk gIve your children a teaspoonful teaspoon teaspoon- teaspoonful ful of cod liver oil and see that they are out every sunlight day Older chIl- chIl chIldren children dren may have the yolk of an egg Children with rickets not only have softening of the bones but they are more liable hable to pneumonia and other dIseases These measures should be for tor tine the dark durk months beginning with October or Noi No ember and through April Rickets occur most frequently dur durIng during Ing the second halt half ot of the first year ot of life lIto and the first halt half of the second year Dark skinned people as negroes and ItalIans are more prone to It than light people their pIgment acts as an armor against sunlight Qt Co ow paper |