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...Lotrell Timanus tells how he built up a roster of 353 physicians who would send patients to him for abortions in his Baltimore practice. From 1920 to 1951 he performed 5,210 of the illegal operations. The abortionist's testimony appears in Abortion in the United States (Harper-Hoeber, $5.50), the record of the 1955 international conference on abortion sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the New York Academy of Medicine...
...Suzanna Hoeber IG spoke in another panel discussion on academic freedom. She and three other students listed instances where student and faculty rights were abused and urged a return to a situation where these groups were not afraid to express their views...
Packed with such relationships between man and his bodily ailments is Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine (Hoeber; $3.50), by Dr. George Draper, Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis and Dr. John Lyon Caughey Jr. of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital.* Material for the book was gathered from the hospital's unique Constitution Clinic, founded in 1916. To find its facts the clinic uses Sheldon's system of calculating body build (TIME, July 15, 1940), rates each patient for androgyny (male and female characteristics), photographs patients nude (of 2,500, only four have refused), performs needed laboratory tests and interviews each...
...last week was an unusual medical book, Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain (Hoeber; $5), an authoritative treatise which Dr. Walter C. Alvarez directs toward young physicians, but which will be as eagerly read by laymen as by doctors. Its 471 pages include some of the ideas the famed gastroenterologist summarized in his recent hints to busy doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. (TIME, Aug. 16)-and many more. All are calculated to help doctors make accurate diagnoses and limit treatment to what will actually help. Emphasis is on ways of knowing when a patient has no organic disease...
...believes he can tell what kind of an adult it will become-whether bright or dull, sociable or seclusive, skillful or clumsy. Last week, Dr. Gesell and his assistant. Dr. Catherine Strunk Amatruda, published a system of scientific tests for measuring and predicting the evolution of personality (Developmental Diagnosis; Hoeber; $6.50). Most of the doctors' prophecies have been subjected to proof, for their studies extend over a period of 20 years. The book tackles such problems as normal behavior, retarded mentality, convulsions, precocity, birth injury, home environments, adoption...