Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dwarfism. Stature of four feet has become conventional demarkation between normal and little people. Midgets are well-proportioned dwarfs. True dwarfs have big heads, shoulders, chests and buttocks, short extremities. Causes of dwarfism include heredity, disease of the thyroid, pituitary or kidneys, disturbances in the changing of cartilage into bone, or essential infantilism. If Europe produces more dwarfs (and midgets) than the U. S., the explanation may be with Europe's greater population (550,000,000 to 122,775,000 which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism, which seems to be less common...
...that ripe bananas, for some not fully understood reason, have the power to break up starches and convert cane sugar into more easily tolerated fruit sugar. With carbohydrate (sugar, starch) assimilation taken care of, digestion of fats takes care of itself. Ripe bananas contain all the essential vitamins, except bone-forming D. For times & places where ripe bananas are not available, there are now available preparations of dried, powdered banana...
Professionally he is rated a speedy, crackerjack general surgeon operating on "anything below the throat." The cliche is misleading. He has done notable re search on the pituitary gland (in the skull) as well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...
Four thousand Yale rats had their legs broken so that Dr. Samuel Clark Harvey, professor of surgery, could learn how broken bones mend. Last week he presented a summary of his study. On a normal diet the rats' legs show some strength the sixth day after the break. Strength increases rapidly until the 15th day, during which tide calcium and phosphorus salts are deposited. Then for six days the new bone loses up to 30% of its strength. After the 21st day the bone again grows stronger, healthier, until completely healed...
...important observation has to do with diet while broken bones mend. If the diet lacks the necessary salts, the broken bone draws its material from the other bones of the body, weakens them...