Word: lowenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus does famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock describe his own childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...
Solomonic wisdom); the three-meals-a-day routine is too arbitrary.
Strangely, Drs. Spock and Lowenberg seem not to have got the word that spinach, far from being a great bodybuilder, can actually be bad for growing children (TIME, March 30, 1953). All they concede is that if it causes chapping of the lips or anus, it is well to "omit it for several months and try again." That sounds more like old Dr. Holt...
Like most doctors in the same spot, Dr. Lowenberg gave his patient the argument but not the drug. Carefully he explained that high blood pressure is not in itself a disease; it is a symptom of an underlying disorder. Unfortunately, in at least 75% of cases, the root cause is unknown. This cause may be a killer, or patients may live for years and die of some disease which has nothing to do with the state of their blood vessels. Because doctors know that emotional strain is often a big factor in the life of such a patient, they...
That is what Dr. Lowenberg did with Mrs. Y. "Actually," he said, "she needed mild psychotherapy in the form of reassurance from me, plus a small dose of barbiturate. In her case, hexamethonium would have done little good and might have done severe damage...