Newspaper Tidbits from Rick B Monday, May 1, 2006 "The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, January 15, 1898, page 9 A PRACTICAL THOUGHT. Many Sacrificed by Neglecting the Early Attention to Their Cases. Spinal diseases and deformities ar the results of irritations or weaknesses in the spinal cordor its surrounding and supporting spinal column which naturally progresess until the body loses its normal trunkal bearings, the bones are made to press upon the tender cords or its emerging nerves when all the evils are increased and if not arrested will result in pain, paralysis, increased inflammation, permanent deformity and death or if not death, a condition of living worse than death. Many of our brightest youths are thus sacrificed by neglecting the early attention to these cases. They may be naturally tender and weak and from injury, over application to work or study allowing their bodies to assume an unnatural position, thus putting and leaving their bodies out of proper equipose, until they really grow crooked before they are aware of it and then the weight of the body in this new poscition continues to increase the difficulty until the above deplorable condition is brought about. How many of our choices children are already started in this direction and should be rescued at once, but from lack of knowledge or attention, are allowed to drift beyond the power of science and human skill and are thus lost to a life of usefulness or if life is not crushed out---such deformities result that the poor unfortuantes wish they had died. To rescue these unfortunates and to correct these deformities before they pass beyond the boundary of human skill is t! he especial work of the "Banning Institutes," a branch of which is now located for a short time at 108 West Colfax avenue, in the rear of the First National bank. You ask why we should go to them? I answer because they have made this a life study and work and certainly should have learned more about the nature, causes and cure of these conditions and all their concomitant nervous complications which are so difficult and so little understood than if they had merely given these things a passing notice. And furthermore, that they have a system of mechanical appliances that has earned and maintained its claims of superiority over all methods of treatment in these cases wherever exhibited in competition with others, and above all by its success in the beneficient relief and cure which it secures to those suffering ones. It is not reasonable that a mechanic with superior instruments and advantages and a large experience in their use, can accomplish much that he otherwise could not do? There are many cases in South Bend and vicinity which need their assistance at once. Can you afford further delay?