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...deadly, especially to babies. But their medical library contained only one good account of its dangers, published in 1960 by two Baltimore researchers. The Binghamton doctors were faced with the first case of mass salt poisoning in U.S. hospital annals. They summoned one of the Baltimore team, Dr. Laurence Finberg of Johns Hopkins, and began their own frantic efforts to save the poisoned babies...
...some of the salt, mixed and diluted, came with it. The needle stayed in place, and the drip-and-drain process was repeated every four hours, round the clock. Dr.Kiley worked on five babies this way for 36 hours, with only an hour's nap, until Dr. Finberg, delayed by bad weather, arrived to relieve him. One by one, all but one of the remaining babies were taken off the critical list, though some were still sick...
...baby seems well, parents must wait for as long as a year to see whether it will develop normally. By a mechanism not clearly understood, salt poisoning may cause irreversible damage to the brain. The tablespoonful of salt that many Binghamton babies had swallowed, said Dr. Finberg, was as lethal a dose as 4 lbs. of salt to an adult...
...LIFE OF J. M. W. TURNER, R. A. -A. J. Finberg-Oxford...
Published this week was a new, scrupulous biography* with Thornbury sieved out by 35 years of patient research (ended last March by Biographer Finberg's death) in contemporary records and in the previously unstudied "Turner wastepaper basket," eleven boxes of notes and sketchbooks preserved in the National Gallery. The figure that emerges is a businesslike professional with a shrewd grey eye and the weather-beaten taciturnity of a shipmaster, a lover of open sea, open sky and the money that enabled him to be independent and solitary. In reproving Thornbury's tales of early love affairs...