Show tile the law of growth dr charles Cli aries sedgewick klinot professor of histology and embryology in iii tile the harvard medical school barks backs up ills his theory of the law of growth by the results of several years of observations upon guinea pigs dogs rabbits ferrets ferr ats and other small animals as well as boston school children lie says thit that in all growing froien animal organisms from the period of birth to death there Is a steady loss of the power lo 10 0 o grow contrary to tile the general belief that this loss Is be begins ins later in life the body deve develops lopi all 11 the time but the power to keep up that steadily decreases after birth and it decreases much more rapidly at first than later in life A guinea pig two days old will gain 10 perceil per cento of its weight in ili the next two days hut the twenty fifth addition of 10 per cent to its weight will take the pig eighty eight days the law Is tile ilia frame with animals and man |