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adenoids, and slow mental and bodily develop- 

 ment are caused mostly by hypoadrealism and 

 hypothyroidism, and need the preparations of 

 both glands as routine treatment. In deficient 

 growth of limbs the anterior pituitary secretion 

 is probably deficient also, and can be added. 

 As a rule, the child that is markedly sub-thyroidic 

 is also an adrenal deficient, and the two gland 

 preparations help one another in action. 



By filling up these deficiencies we not only 

 promote development but increase resistance to 

 attack, and help the glands to take on for the rest 

 of life a more complete function. 



This artificial immunization cannot, of course, 

 compare with that given naturally by the mother's 

 milk. Healthy mothers, feeding healthy babies 

 with nature's food, will go far to produce an A I 

 nation. Every master and mistress who teaches 

 children should go through a short course of 

 endocrinology. They would then learn to correct 

 their views about the moral responsibility of the 

 dull, stupid child, that cannot learn its lessons, 

 and the imp who is always in mischief ; their 

 convictions on the subject of original sin may 

 also require revision. It is wonderful to see the 

 sub-thyroid child who is to all appearance an 

 unhappy failure wake up into new life and become 



