Word: harelip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing about him is his speech. He never uses a plain word when there is a fancy one handy. A knife he calls a dirk. Besides giving advice on the air and by mail, the Voice spends about $45,000 a year to provide operations for babies born with harelip or cleft palate, spectacles for myopic children, etc. He also sends boys & girls through college without revealing to them the source of their scholarships, helps unmarried mothers through childbirth...
...edge of the little Alabama sawmill town of Hodgetown. Jim and Andrew Tallon grew up in a situation that was set like a time-bomb for some future explosion. Andrew was a powerful, slow-minded, poetic young man who had been laughed at throughout his boyhood because of his harelip and crippled speech. Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life. When innocent, Georgia-born Myrtle Bickerstaff came to town and was paired with Andrew at a church social, won his pathetic devotion and fell in love with his brother, she provided...
Apart from stitching a harelip (best done when a child is two to six weeks of age), and wiring a cleft palate (best done between the second and third year), Dr. Vaughan has devised a method of lengthening the soft palate so that it can effectively close the upper part of the throat, resulting in clear speech...
...obstetrician, says Dr. Kugelmass, should not rush the act. If the baby does not breathe at once, he should not be slapped, tumbled or doused with cold water. Let him lie still, on his back, and receive a little carbon-dioxide gas mixed with oxygen. Any observable deformity (harelip, club feet, etc.) should be mended during the first month or two. Floppy ears will often set if merely held close to the head with adhesive plaster...
...both to a genetic and to an environmental factor, I shall disregard the genetic phase. . .In the Northeast we find a high cleft-palate rate. We deal with a population that has been domiciled under the present climatic conditions for perhaps some 200 years or more. . . . Cleft palate and harelip are not fatal and do not prevent reproduction. Familiar strains present in the population would continue and the climatic instability would, if anything, enhance the frequency of such defects...