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Last week Dr. Daniel Stowens, a Louisville pathologist, said he had found the explanation of H.M.D. and a simple, effective treatment: Epsom salts enemas. He told the College of American Pathologists that he had concluded from post-mortem examinations that H.M.D. victims suffered from an inability to get rid of excess water. Since the premature baby's kidneys may not be up to the job of ridding the body of excess water, Dr. Stowens suggested helping them with the Epsom salts enemas. In eight months, 28 babies with "severe respiratory distress and all clinical signs of hyaline membrane disease...
...they could have revealed there." In fact, thanks to sophisticated new techniques in "psychobiography" (analysis of handwriting, paintings, drawings, dreams), "psychology and biography have become almost inseparable." To demonstrate what a psycho-biographer can do when he sets his intuitions to work, Psychologist Kiell presents a series of post-mortem analyses of famous Americans as seen by an array of psychologists and psychiatrists. Most of them read like psychiatric small talk overheard at a literary cocktail party...
...there was little excuse for such devious reasoning. For once, a political post-mortem could produce a clear, simple explanation. The reason Rocky won was that of the six contestants in Oregon he alone was there-working, fighting, pleading his case, and showing Oregon that he really cared about the state, its primary and its 18 delegates. And where were the other Republican runners...
...Post-Mortem. Brazil has been on the road to trouble for years. Under the spend-build, spend-build administration of Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-61), the country lavished millions on massive public works projects, including the construction of the nation's $600 million capital of Brasília. Erratic Jânio Quadros, who took office in 1961, slapped on rigid austerity measures. But he stuck around only seven months before resigning in a fit of pique, and then Goulart-his Vice President-moved into the palace...
Mississippi Metaphor. Post-mortem findings indicate that these patients have suffered from what Dr. Goodwin called "showers of clots." Then, switching to an appropriate Mississippi Delta metaphor, he suggested that their effect is to silt up the channels through which the lungs' blood flows. One result, which should help physicians in diagnosing the disorder, is that the concentration of oxygen in the arterial blood goes down with exertion, and so does the level of carbon dioxide...