Word: lancasterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jacob and his family are Old Order Amish. They belong to a community that lives at the edge of American society, with spiritual values rooted in Pennsylvania-Deutsch soil. Most of the 20,000 Old Order Amish living in Lancaster County are descended from the 200 German-Swiss farmers who...
Morton's introduction to glutaric aciduria and the Amish came one night in 1987 while he was on duty in the clinical laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. A fellow physician, Dr. Charles Nichter, asked him to analyze the urine sample of an Amish child, Danny Lapp, from Lancaster...
Recognizing that the Old Order Amish and Mennonites (who suffer from a similar genetic disorder called maple syrup urine disease) could not reach major medical centers if their children became ill--particularly since the condition often deteriorates in a matter of hours--Morton and his wife Caroline decided to build...
Grateful that Morton had diagnosed a granddaughter's illness during his early visits to Lancaster County, Jacob and Naomi Stoltzfoos sold the Mortons, at half market value, 2 1/2 acres of land as a site for the clinic. Two Mennonite congregations contributed a liquid chromatograph for analyzing blood samples of...
"When Dr. Morton told us that our daughter Barbie Ann had glutaric aciduria, John and I thought he had made a mistake," says Lydia Stoltzfoos, daughter-in-law of Jacob and Naomi. But Barbie Ann soon developed a fever, and Morton admitted her to Lancaster General. Stressed by infection, a...