830 



FKANCIS H. McCKUDDEN 



TABLE 17 



METABOLISM OF PATIENT (F. S.) WITH INTESTINAL INFANTILISM AFTER PARTIAL 



IMPROVEMENT 



disturbance referable to the skeletal system. With the improvement in 

 general nutrition, the metabolism of those elements associated with the 

 soft tissues rise to a higher plane. But the metabolism of calcium, an 

 element important for bone growth, remains abnormal. 



The frail and rarefied bone strongly indicates that the skeleton is grow- 

 ing as fast as the lime salts at the disposal of the body permit, faster in 

 fact than it can grow and form normal bone. The available calcium seems 



