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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4381, 22 February 1922, Page 2

A special diet of shebp glands prepared in th© kitchen of) Chicago's board schools is, it is hoped, going to prove to the world that in six months the sluggish brains of sub-normal children can be made as active as those of the ordinary pupils. At least this is the confident belief of Dr. Frank G.. Bruner, Director of Special School of the Chicago Boardlof Education, Dr.. Allen Truby, medjeal director of the Chicago Sanatorium of Tuberculosis, and Dr. Alexander. Hircrifield, of the Health Department of that enterprising metropolis pf the Middle West. Dr. Bruner says that much has been done with the transplantation of monkey and goat glands for reviving physical functions* and he expects to meet with success in putting new brains into the heads of backward children through the exclu-i sive use of the sheep gland diet. Several thousand little ones ! in subnormal classes will be subjected to the experiment, and the physicians will make careful note of the results', Lessons, they predict, will begin to come easier to the children in a feif days, as will be manifest by signs of intelligent interest in place of) the apathy and blank stare which how are the symptoms of mental undevelopment.