Dmso: Nature's Healer by Walker Morton

Author:Walker, Morton [Walker, Morton]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781101662342
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 1992-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

DMSO Therapy for Mental Disabilities

Melody Clark had her first psychomotor evaluation when she was six months old. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Clark of Wenatchee, Washington, learned that Melody would be so severely retarded that in all likelihood she would never progress mentally beyond the age of six. She was born with an extra chromosome 21—a total of forty-seven chromosomes instead of the normal human forty-six—making her a victim of Down’s syndrome or trisomy 21.

Patients with Down’s syndrome are labeled trisomic mongoloids, because of certain characteristics peculiar to an individual with three of a particular chromosome rather than the normal pair of homologous chromosomes. Typically, the affected child is born to an older mother, although the condition may also occur in babies of mothers of any age. The overall incidence is about 1 in 700 live births, but there is marked variability depending on the mother’s age. In the early child-bearing years, the incidence is about 1 in 2,000 live births; for mothers over age forty, it rises to about 45 in 1,000 live births. Close to 50 percent of infants with Down’s syndrome are born to mothers over thirty-five years of age.

The babies tend to be placid, rarely cry, and demonstrate lack of muscular tone. Their physical and mental development is retarded; the mean intelligence quotient (IQ) is about 50. Facial characteristics differ from the normal: an unusually small head, flattened at the rear, and disproportionately short; slanted eyes with folds of skin extending from the root of the nose to the inner termination of the eyebrow are present. Gray to white spots resembling grains of salt clustering around the periphery of the iris are usually visible in the period just after birth and disappear during the first twelve months of life. The bridge of the nose is flattened, and the baby’s mouth is often held open by a large, protruding tongue that is furrowed and lacks the central fissure.

The hands of such children are short and broad, with a single palmar crease (“simian crease”). Their fingers appear short with incurvature of the fifth finger, which often has only two phalanges. The feet have a wide gap between the first and second toes, and a furrow on the foot sole extends backward. X-rays of the children’s hips disclose decreased acetabular and iliac angles, and prior to the availability of chromosome analysis this was a major finding in confirming the diagnosis.

Congenital heart disease is found in about 35 percent of Down’s syndrome patients. Thus, life expectancy is decreased by the threat of heart disease and by susceptibility to acute leukemia. However, many youngsters without a major heart defect survive to adulthood but not to old age.

When Melody Clark was eleven months old, her parents placed her on DMSO therapy under the supervision of Dr. Stanley Jacob. At that time, she couldn’t stand because her legs were just like a rag doll’s. She could not roll from her back to her abdomen. Her eyes were constantly out of focus; she was almost unable to see.

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