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...thick and 35 in. long, attached to a 20-in. handle. The cat was applied across the bare back-in recent times, in the presence of a doctor-after neck and kidneys had been protected against permanent injury. Maximum number of strokes for civilian offenders: 50. A milder alternative ordered by judges was the birch, a yard-long bundle of twigs, soaked" in water and whacked across bare buttocks...
...gelatin. The results reported by Dr. Hammon were heartening: of more than 27,000 children who received gamma globulin, only 2 developed paralytic polio; of an equal number who received gelatin, 64 suffered some paralysis. And, Dr. Hammon added, it looks as though the attacks were milder and shorter-lived for children who had G.G. than for the others...
...place of flogging and fines, new methods of punishment have been introduced--much milder methods, of course. Presently, warning, probation, suspension, and expulsion are the rewards for academic or disciplinary misconduct...
...Houston, therefore, that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis decided to conduct its biggest test of an inoculation which may make polio milder if it strikes and save the victim from permanent paralysis. There is no evidence that it can prevent polio. The material to be inoculated is gamma globulin, a blood fraction which contains antibodies against several diseases (TIME, Nov. 5). Tried in Provo, Utah on a scale too small to be decisive (TIME, April 28), it is to be given this week to half of 35,000 Houston youngsters aged one to six; the other half-the "control...
...stages, can aggravate the disease. Since most patients are children, a mother's care is best, anyway, and there is a further advantage in having the regular family doctor remain in charge, though he may want to call in a specialist for help. Finally, home care of the milder, nonparalytic cases saves money and leaves hospitals free for the more serious cases, which must be hospitalized...