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Later, races were defined according to "types." There were the blond Nordic type, the dark Spanish type, the Semitic, Negro, and Mongoloid type. But individuals who differed markedly from the type--dark-haired Scandinavians, for instance--could not adequately be classed under this system, and the type system was eventually rejected...
Johnson, a one-legged veteran of World War II now on desk duty, loved David as much as he did his older sons. But David, with oblique eyes and clubbed fingers, was a mongoloid-born an idiot (thanks to some quirk of nature not yet understood). When Johnson pressed him, Dr. Berridge said David had little chance of learning anything more difficult than feeding himself and using the toilet, no chance of ever earning a living. Johnson wondered aloud, in his agony, what would happen to David when he and his wife were gone. What would this incubus...
...Higdon of Teaneck, N.J. Before a Canadian meeting of obstetricians and gynecologists, he reported that studies of 21,000 mothers indicate that childbirth presents only slightly greater risks to a woman of 40 than to one of 20. The older women bore only a slightly higher percentage of Mongoloid children, suffered no more difficult deliveries, had an average mortality rate...
...Mongolism, however, the commonest single cause of mental retardation in infants, there is no cure. The doctors can only hope that careful studies will give them insight into its causes. In the meantime, they can treat many of its physical symptoms. Physicians use antibiotics to combat the susceptibility of Mongoloids to infections. Surgeons may correct heart conditions, the chief cause of debility and death. In 1900, Mongoloids rarely lived beyond infancy. A Mongoloid born in 1956 may expect to reach 20 years...
Advice for Parents. The clinic's advice to parents of Mongoloid children: even though the child will eventually be committed to an institution, keep him in the home as long as possible. In early years, Mongoloids are happy, playful and easily manageable. It is often the parents who need treatment. As a "parent counselor," Dr. Koch has to deal with marital tensions. "The problem is that these women don't want to have children again, and it often causes sexual incompatibility. I urge them to have children. It takes their guilt feelings away...