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Died. Edward C. Kendall, 86, biochemist who, with two colleagues, shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for the discovery of cortisone; in Rahway, N.J. After joining the Mayo Clinic in 1914, Kendall succeeded in isolating thyroxine from the thyroid glands of cattle, a development of importance to patients whose growth had been stunted by hormonal deficiencies. In 1930 he began research into the secretions of the adrenal cortex, and during eight years isolated six hormones, including cortisone, a substance effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Addison's disease and other ailments...
...disturbed adults and children. Mental health care in the area includes more than just psychiatric help. Other services in this comprehensive system are a ten-bed detoxification program for alcoholics in the Cambridge Hospital, a halfway house for former alcoholics, a program for retarded people at the Walnut Street Clinic, and a nursery school for emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded kids under seven years of age. These programs represent cooperative ventures between the state Mental Health and Retardation Center, the cities of Cambridge and Somerville, and private organizations such as the Cambridge Mental Health Association and the Board of Casper...
...Harbor Area faces similar problems in the scale and quality of community care. Only Revere offers comprehensive help. The Bunker Hill Health Center in Charlestown, the Revere-Chelsea Clinic, and the North Suffolk Mental Health Center in East Boston provide effective, but more limited, mental health services. The North End, the West End and Beacon Hill still lack their own programs. The new Lindemann Center and the Acute Psychiatric Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital are moving to meet these needs, but their efforts have either just begun or are still in the planning stages. As in the Cambridge-Somerville...
...tests for learning and perceptual disabilities before staff members meet with parents to set what Dr. Robert Haslam, the institute's director, calls "realistic goals for their habilita-tion." It also provides in-and outpatient services for 140 children. Similar programs are carried out at the Developmental Evaluation Clinic at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, whose director. Dr. Allen Crocker, believes that almost every retarded child can be helped in some way. He spends much of his time training parents to accept the retarded as human beings. Parents must also learn not to give up hope...
...Then a student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Engleman arranged to have each person interviewed at length on his or her feelings toward man and woman physicians. Though all clinic patrons, the patients included college-educated middle-class people as well as the poor. These findings are excerpted from Engleman's unpublished study...