Medicine: How Can You Give Up?

Eighteen months ago, little Donald Morton was toddling around his father's farm near Archerwill, Saskatchewan like any other healthy two-year-old. Then he developed a limp. Arthur Morton took his son to the local doctor for treatment, but the limp grew worse. The child's arms and legs lost their chubby firmness. His father saw him "grab at things and miss them by inches. He couldn't handle his toys and he'd run into the furniture and knock things over."

Farmer Morton took his blue-eyed son from doctor to doctor, dipping deep into his meager savings. Finally Donald's illness was diagnosed: subdural hydroma, or water...

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