Word: colics
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...scientific sessions, where 118 papers were given (many of them in highly technical trade talk), members heard: ¶ A report by a University of Washington research team that excessive crying by infants, usually called "three-months' colic," is directly traceable to the mother's behavior. If the mothers are inconsistent in their care, offering food irregularly, sometimes nursing the babies when they are restless and at other times ignoring them, the babies not only cry more but grow more slowly than those who get consistent, considerate care. ¶ The story of a young mother with a triple personality...
...those babies whose pink bottoms are easily irritated. Like many other French mothers, Mrs. Lejeune sprinkled the tender parts with Baumol baby powder. But instead of getting better, tiny François got redder, ran a fever and cried incessantly. The doctor said it was 1) colic, 2) teething, 3) oversensitive skin. Mrs. Lejeune rocked the baby, carried him about, bathed him and dusted him with Baumol. But one day poor François' skin burst out into big abscesses. Rushed to the hospital, he was given oxygen, but died a few hours later. The doctors thought the cause...
...with conflicting theories on infant colic, two Manhattan pediatricians ried grandma's remedy on 28 babies: a rubber pacifier. It pacified all but three...
...cows were required for his feeding. Pantagruel, his son, needed only 4,600 cows, but he was so vigorous that he ate one of the cows, and had to be bound in his crib with the chain later used for young Lucifer when he had the colic. When Pantagruel goes to Paris, he meets Panurge, a gay dog who knows 63 ways to make money and 214 to spend...
...plagued Richard until in self-defense he demanded a trial. His contention: there had been no baby, therefore there was no murder. By the time able Defense Attorney Patrick Henry got through with the state's witnesses, the jury was ready to believe that it must have been colic after all. Richard and Nancy were acquitted, but their trials & tribulations at the hands of Richard's vengeful wife were just beginning...