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...year-old, wrote Dr. McCluskie in the medical journal Lancet, twelve hours at night and a 2½-hour morning nap is sleep enough. A three-year-old needs only twelve hours, including nap; a five-year-old, eleven hours; an eleven-year-old, ten hours. A half-hour variation from this schedule, warned the doctor, may induce masturbation, surreptitious reading in bed, restlessness and inability to concentrate in school...
...peripatetic correspondent" of the staid British medical paper, The Lancet, contributed to the current issue a clinical report on an unclinical subject: lying in bed. Said...
Although Britain's medical journal, The Lancet, approved the plan, the well-organized British Medical Association opposed it, reasserted their conviction that doctors should not be civil servants. Patient and doctor alike, declared the B.M.A., would suffer from the loss of professional freedom. Some commentators grimly pointed to the health plans adopted by Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany...
...Lancet, Britain's Lieut. Colonel F. M. Lipscomb wrote: "The most conspicuous psychological abnormality [of adults and children] was a degradation of moral standards characterized by increasing selfishness . . . more or less proportional to the degree of undernutrition. . . . Even among those not grossly undernourished, there was a blunting of sensitivity to scenes of cruelty and death. Children who had grown up in concentration camps were almost unmoved by the sight of these horrors...
...spite of war, the world's birth rate for the past four years has been higher than usual. Why? Britain's well-informed medical journal, the Lancet, brooded over the question but found no specific answer. Among the Lancet's guesses: 1) an "unexpectedly high level of mental stability" among the masses; 2) a wartime contraceptive shortage; 3) an insecure world turning to children as a "shock absorber...