Word: infantability
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...drunks that a rich budget of police court news was always available in the morning. Publisher Abell broke the journalistic tradition against handling such stories, served them up in his columns hot and strong. Baltimoreans liked this kind of "light for all" so well that within a year the infant Sun had 12,000 readers, by far the biggest circulation in town...
Nasal oils can accumulate in the lungs and remain there for life. On their way from the nose and throat they may carry infections causing what is called lipoid (fatty) pneumonia. Death in infants usually results from a secondary pneumonic infection. "Infants," said Dr. Rice, " may recover and general health may improve under proper management, although a residual pneumonic process may persist indefinitely." To prevent such accidents, Dr. Rice advised doctors and parents "not to give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits...
...excited policeman chased through Boston last week, expecting disaster when they caught up with Mrs. Rubina Hartman. A few hours after giving birth to a girl in City Hospital, Mrs. Hartman, 33, had dressed, visited friends, then gone to her home in suburban Roxbury. Nurses found the infant lying alone in Mrs. Hartman's hospital bed. No mania impelled her, the mother averred when doctor and policeman reached her. She felt well; she had work to do at home; she was going to do it; the hospital, she knew, would look after the baby and bring...
After assisting a babe into the world, U. S. doctors customarily see to it that a few drops of silver nitrate are dropped into the infant's eyes to prevent blindness from venereal infection. In 20 States such prophylaxis is required by law. In eleven more it is mandatory under certain conditions. In Washington last week the District of Columbia Committee of the House of Representatives had before it a bill to require in the District eye prophylaxis at birth. The bill carried a Senate amendment which was so full of religious implications that a subcommittee...
...about four months of age she left the sanatorium much to our regret for this infant had become the pet of the nurses and doctors. She had been with us six months. . . . She continued to regress until she assumed the foetal posture, breathing gently being her only movement. At this time she was sent to a State hospital where soon she was gathered into the womb of her mother earth to which we all regress soon or late...