Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn one day last week, in the Lima Maternity Hospital, Hilda Trujillo gave birth to a daughter weighing a trifle over six pounds. The mother took no anesthetic, and the five-hour labor was entirely normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not normal: the mother's age. She was herself a child of nine years, seven months, 28 days. Only a few months ago she wore white cardboard wings and played an angel in the third-grade play at school...
Like half a dozen others that had recently arrived, this brain came from a child who had just died with cerebral palsy. It gave Dr. Perlstein, pediatrician at both Cook County and Michael Reese Hospitals, one more chance to learn additional details about the grim affliction which is not directly fatal but is severely handicapping, sometimes shortens life by lowering resistance. The specimen was listed in the brain registry of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy (which Dr. Perlstein helped to found in 1949) and sent on to Pathologist Herman Josephy at Chicago State Hospital. Dr. Josephy may take...
Matched Histories. Cerebral palsy afflicts one child out of 215 born in the U.S. But it is a catchall label for a wide variety of symptoms, and it may have an equal variety of causes. Symptoms range from spasticity (generalized rigidity of the muscles), chorea (sudden and jerky purposeless movements), athetosis (slower and more writhing movements), grimacing and lack of balance...
Spanish at Four. The whole idea of the school is not to give the children a completely different education from the kind they would receive elsewhere, but to keep them constantly challenged. "A kindergarten child with an IQ of 135," says Alma, "is about 6½ years old. You can't keep a child like that interested in finger painting all year." Each pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons...
...faith-symbolized by a pathetic lunatic who imagines that he is the Christ of the Second Coming-wanders in alienation; and because there is no real religion, the world's soul-symbolized by a pregnant woman-dies in giving birth to a dead future. In the end a child's faith works a miracle, restoring religion, and through the power of religion restoring the soul to life...