Show NEW TREATMENT TO BANISH RICKETS DOCTORS CLAIM 1101 milk from cows fed irradiated feed not only preventive but cure thit rickets it bone disease affecting more than 50 per cent of all infants can be banished by using milk from cows feil fed feeds irradiate il with ultraviolet 01 et rays was the announcement made by dr alfred F iless hess of new yolk an international authority before the american medical association here doctor hess for many years clinical professor of diseases of children at the university and bellevue bellev 11 e hospital medical college told of tile the recent experiments with one hun bun dred babies conducted by himself and his associates dr J 11 lewis and dr F L macleod both of new inlew aorl and dr C B 11 II thomas of iowa state college whereby it was conclusively broten that rickets can be not only prevented but cured by tile the process of using the milk produced by cows which have received a special ration part of which was as irradiated with ultra lolet ras the discovery and announcement is important doctor hess suggests because mccaus it points the ibay ay to tile lie elimination of rickets on a large scale that is from the public health standpoint rather than through the individual the ch bof difficulty with present methods of treating rickets Is that they require tile the close operation cooperation co of the mother and tile physician in each individual case if by the simple process of using milk from cows fed irradiated feed infants and y young oung children can be automatically freed from rickets as doctor I 1 less fless demonstrations indicate a big advance lins has been made in the elimination on of this bone disease chich is so widely prevalent pre valeni in the if 1 e united states rickets nickels is t he most common nutritional disorder of infants in the temperate zone says doctor less although it lias has decreased in incidence and severity it is still true that more than 50 per cent of infants suffer from this disorder to a greater or less degree there are various remedies available for the prevention elltion or cure of rickets for four example cod cot liver oil milk treated with ultra lolet rays and direct exposure or of the hie infant to these rays the ninin main criticism of all these agencies is that they require the operation cooperation co of the mother some ire are difficult to rive give expensive or time colsum ing 11 |