Word: childing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visiting U.S. anthropologist, seeing at once that the child was suffering from an infestation of worms, asked the father's permission to take it to a doctor. The father shamefacedly stalled for a day, another day, and a third-until the child died. Then the reason for the father's reluctance became shockingly clear. The family and all the neighbors danced, sang and drank deep at a gay, all-night wake, planned days before and sanctioned by their belief that all children who die go happily and directly to heaven. An ill-timed cure of the youngster would...
This incident took place in 1949 at rock-strewn Vicos Hacienda, 10,000 feet up in the Andes northeast of Lima. But since then Vicos has changed. Last week Dr. Allan Holmberg, the scientist who wanted to save the child's life, reported on the change in a lecture at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, in Stanford, Calif...
...even if no signs of virus can be seen, some of the same vaccine material is tested again, over another week, with fresh kidney tissue. Half a dozen cynom-olgus monkeys get shots (in the arms) ten times as potent as a human child receives. And twelve rhesus monkeys are injected, with the vaccine going into the nervous system-some directly into the brain itself. Even if these monkeys fail to get sick, they must be killed (painlessly by ether) after a month and their nerve tissues are examined minutely...
...testing materials for polio virus. It looks as though a vaccine containing only a few stray particles of active virus-which might do no harm to a monkey or great ape when injected into the brain or spinal cord-may touch off paralytic disease when injected into a child...
...version's "And he [Joseph] knew her not till she brought forth her first-born son" (Matthew 1:25), and "And she brought forth her first-born son" (Luke 2:7). To that Catholics reply that Scriptural use of the word "firstborn" connotes a woman's first child but does not neces-j sarily indicate later children...