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...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. Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black...
...usual hospital practice of putting newborn babies in an incubator if they have breathing difficulties is wrong, said an Atlanta husband & wife team, Drs. James and Faith Miller. The warmth of the incubator increases the need for oxygen, whereas cold decreases it. After experiments on animals, the Millers suspect that babies in danger of asphyxia should be chilled...
...Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides. Developed by Drs. Theodore Koppanyi and Joseph Fazekas of Washington, D.C., the pills contain standard barbiturates and an added safety factor, pentylenetetrazol. A powerful nerve stimulant, the safety factor counteracts the depressant effect of too much barbiturate, and long before the goofball addict drifts into euphoria or the would-be suicide passes out, pentylenetetrazol causes the unhappy user to vomit his medicine...
...psychiatrists, surgeons and lawyers approved the procedure that had been followed with Jorgensen. But there will be no such operations in the U.S. (or in Britain, France and many other countries) where the operation is illegal. And the transvestites now clamoring to go to Denmark for the "Jorgensen operation" (Drs. Hamburger Stuerup have heard from 600 so far) are doomedto disappointment. The Danes have decided never to perform it again on a foreigner. Too much excitement...
...made of people blinded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; perhaps few people were looking into the sky at the right moment. If modern bombs attract more sightseers, they will blind them at greater distances than four miles, for they are far brighter than the nominal bombs were. Hydrogen bombs, say Drs. Rose and Buettner, will probably blind from as far away as they can be seen...