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Other researchers have never confirmed Dr. Coca's results, and U.S. medical men generally dismiss his theory. But the world's allergists in Florence were impressed. Nonsmokers felt a quickening of their own pulses when they heard that one of the commonest causes of idioblapsis is tobacco, with one patient's pulse reported jumping from a rate of 46 to 94 within three minutes of lighting a cigarette. Still more provocative was the case of a man whose pulse went from 68 to 104 after he merely held a cold, empty pipe in his mouth...
...Clinic, organized in 1953, is now studying 50 retarded children under five, observing their activities and actually treating some afflictions. For Mongolism, however, the commonest single cause of mental retardation in infants, there is no cure. The doctors can only hope that careful studies will give them insight into its causes. In the meantime, they can treat many of its physical symptoms. Physicians use antibiotics to combat the susceptibility of Mongoloids to infections. Surgeons may correct heart conditions, the chief cause of debility and death. In 1900, Mongoloids rarely lived beyond infancy. A Mongoloid born in 1956 may expect...
...importance of their find. The spearhead was a partially fluted "Clovis point"-so called because the first such flint specimen was found near Clovis, N. Mex. Clovis points have always been considered older than the fully fluted Folsom points, but no one was sure just how old they are. Commonest guess was 15,000 years. But the discovery of a Clovis point in a campfire hearth containing charcoal made it possible to date the Clovis culture by carbon...
When Mrs. Floyd Hutchens, 33, of El Cajon, bore twin sons in San Diego's Grossmont Hospital July 2, they were joined for 1½ inches at the base of their spines. This is the commonest form of joining in "Siamese" twins, but there was only one case in U.S. medical annals where both twins so joined had survived an operation to separate them...
...More. Advances in surgery and anesthesiology have made a tremendous difference in the outlook for aged victims of disease and accident in recent years. They used to be dismissed as "poor surgical risks." But no more. The death rate from broken hips, one of their commonest accidental injuries, was appallingly high because of surgical shock, or infection, or other complications during long, bedridden convalescence. Now surgeons can safely undertake the operation to reduce the fracture in victims as old as 90. The surgeons use a metal nail to fix the bones in place; the use of antibiotics prevents infections...