Word: benwood
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Last week Georgetown University's Dr. O. Benwood Hunter Jr. reported that cortisone and ACTH will do this in most cases. The level of the mother's hormone secretions is carefully checked as pregnancy advances, and if it indicates that the baby's red blood cells are not forming properly, or are being destroyed, the mother gets cortisone. (Sometimes she also gets ACTH to step up her own and the baby's production of adrenal hormones like cortisone...
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