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Cutting out badness transforms children in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia a coordinated effort with the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty and city health and education bodies applies physical treatment to reform troublesome children. Medical exams uncover brain pressure from skull defects and adenoids, and surgical relief often yields rapid improvement in behavior and mental outlook.
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Dr. Butcher
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Society To
Quaker City
Board of Health
Board of Education
Department of Public Charities and Correction
William Penn
Spurgeon “Welty
Spurgeon
Nazareth
Philadephia
Benjamin C. Marsh
The
Cruelty Society
Mr. Marsh
Ernest Laplace
Laplace
Alfred Gordon
Spurgeon Welty
Marsh
S. Weir Mitchell
Francis X. Dercum
Mitchell
A. C. Butcher