Show 1 r if wi t RICKETS Many persons have haye an nn Idea that rickets Is la a disease children o of Im Impoverished par par- par par- parents only But a this Is not true Rickets Is la no respecter respecter re- re specter of ot wealth You YouA A s have but to walk In various sections of ot a city to not notice Ice that there are about x as m many n a u n y ev evi evidences t- t f t t b dences lences of ot bowlegs bowlegs bow bow- legs CI bandy legs and arms pigeon chests and square- square topped heads among the older per per- I I sons In the well well-to-do sections as th there re are In the poorer sections This la Is because when these persons per sons were children doctors did not know so much about rickets ts ns fiS wedo wo we do today And It Is to be hoped that no child within the tile reach of modern medical knowledge will willever willever ever have to endure the physical handicap caused by this disease The only prevention and the only cure for rickets is an adequate Ute supply supply supply sup sup- ply of vitamin D D. D Sunshine is a great source of this important vita vita- min It Is for this reason that sun suits are ideal clothing for small children whenever the temperature permits and why It Is good even een Inzero Inzero in inzero zero weather for a child to ha have vo its Us nap on a sunny porch the porch the child of course to be kept warm and its Ita face protected from the tho direct glare of ot the sun Bun Ultra violet light too Is a source of or Vitamin D but except except except ex ex- ex- ex In a n few Instances this Is expensive expensive ex pensive and Impractical The other great source o of Vitamin Vitamin Vita Vita- min D Is In a very limited list of foods The oil from fish liver leads leada I i cod cod liver oil Is the one with which we are most familiar next comes egg yolk cad and there Is some Vitamin In InD D In butter fat rat and Just a trace pf or It In mothers mother's milk mm These foods also contain Vitamin A a n very Important health promoting promotIng promoting Infective anti rita ing and general min mm It might aught be he Interesting to note noto here that rickets first manifested 4 Itself in Europe In III the Sixteenth 0 century when people were more and more attracted to living In cities cIties- with their dark tJark houses and dark narrow streets and when people generally were Vere living more of ot an Indoor life Ufe an and babies were kept more and more In the house In this connection It might be Interesting interesting In in- also to note an old folk remedy that Is still used In England and Ireland Dr Langdon nn don Porter child specialist tells of visiting the rural ruml districts of England and Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land and finding a concoction there that the grandmother In the family puts up every ery autumn for tho 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 ed she stirs the mixture vigorously strains out the membrane of the egg and then feeds a spoonful of ot the concoction to the children o once ce or twice a day tJay throughout the winter Modern science approves this remedy There is calcium In the egg eggshell shell vitamins In the egg yolk and the acid of tho the wine acts nets aa ao a pro pr pre Since milk Is so generally a good food health au authorities In this country are arc now experimenting with four metho methods of ot Increasing Vitamin D in milk to the Ule point where milk so treated will have n a sufficient amount of ot this vitamin to prevent rickets The first Is to treat trent yeast with violet ultra light which Increases Increases In In- creases the amount o of Vitamin D several sc hundred times This activated aeU yeast Is fed to dairy cattle an and they In Iu turn secrete In th the milk enough Vitamin D for It ft to be ant anti antl- rachitic Visitors to the 1134 1934 Century Century Cen tury of ot Progress saw a demonstration tion of or this Vitamin D milk In a dairy herd at the south end of or the Ue grounds A second method Is to e expose ose the dairy cows themselves to ultraviolet ultraviolet ultra ultra- violet Iolet JI light ht so that they build buIlt up their own Vitamin D 0 and give Ive milk mille with a hI higher her percentage of or this Important vitamin A third method Is to treat the milk Itself with ultraviolet ultraviolet ultra ultra- violet lI light itt and n a fourth method Isto isto Is la lato to add to the milk In concentrated form farm a tasteless liver cod oil It Is difficult to Sly say as ns y S1 t which of ot the these f methods will Throve prove the the hest best and tt It will be Interesting to watch their development de All An of them necessarily hut but unfortunately unfortunate ly ty add to the cost of ot n rr y e But unless you can get feet vita J min D milk give your children a teaspoonful of cod liver oil and Bee see f that they are out every day Older children n may may- ay haVe hare re et etelk h e y yolk elk of an egg Children n with rickets rick rick- ets not only have bave softening of the tha th bones but they are arc more liable to pneumonia and other diseases a i These measures should be bo for tor the tho dark months beginning be with Oc Octo October ber or November and nd through April Abell Rickets occur most frequently during the second half of or the first year car of ot life lIte and the O first Half I of offee t te fee ie e second year O. 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