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...answers to these worrisome questions can be found in laboratory analysis of a small sample of the amniotic fluid drawn from the sac surrounding the baby in the womb. Using amniocentesis, as the technique is called, doctors can accurately predict serious disorders like Down's syndrome (mongolism) and Gaucher's disease (a metabolic disorder); faced with a grim certainty, prospective parents can opt for abortion. But amniocentesis has its limitations; it cannot foretell all defects. Now comes fetoscopy, a technique that takes over where amniocentesis leaves off by allowing direct examination of the fetus...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ever heard of John Harvard's contemporary John Milton, who said: "I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war." George K. Gaucher...
Later, in 1951, while working with Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology at Harvard, Dr. Uzman isolated and described the lipoprotein in Gaucher's disease, an anemia of the spleen that runs in families and is particularly common among Jews...
...Uzman showed that analysis of fat-like lipid, kerasin, as performed over the previous 40 years, was not enough to explain the peculiar Gaucher cells, sign of the disease. It is also necessary to analyse the deranged metabolism of cell proteins, believed to have an abormal affinity for kerasin. Kerasin is stored in the spleen and causes its enlargement, as well as enlargement of lymph nodes...
...life than is the case with common prostitutes, and more tolerance for the call girl from police and magistrates. In concluding his essay, Judge Sacotte gave generous and unstinted credit for this advance in "de luxe prostitution, perfected and modernized by the employment of the telephone," not to Gabrielle Gaucher but to its true innovator...