Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course in hereditary disease sponsored by the National Foundation-March of Dimes and attended by 100 research specialists from most of the top U.S. medical schools and research institutions. The results were highlighted by two significant reports: on dwarfism (see following story), and on the possible prevention of muscular dystrophy...
...Muscular dystrophy is not a single disease but a group of hereditary disorders in which muscle fibers are damaged and eventually destroyed. At Bar Harbor last week an English exchange researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Alan E. H. Emery, listed eight forms of the disease. Six are extremely rare. The other two are called the "Duchenne" type.* One of these, a less serious form, often affects adults. The other is the most common of all the dystrophies; it is also the most deadly. With rare exceptions it occurs only in boys, attacking them...
...male victims, muscular dystrophy has long been known to cause a widespread upset in body chemistry, mainly in the enzyme system. In normal men and women, for example, the normal level of an enzyme called creatine kinase is up to 1.5 units per liter of blood. Early in life a boy with Duchenne dystrophy may have astronomically high levels, sometimes up to 1,000 units. Dr. Emery and his fellow workers at the Hopkins decided to check the creatine kinase level in mothers of normal boys, mothers of a single dystrophic boy (who might have produced a nonrecurring defective ovum...
...Named for French Neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne, who first described the muscular disorders...
...manner of ordinary men, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse started growing older at birth, 82 years ago. But unlike most he was able to stop the process in mid-adolescence. Wodehouse still lives in the same cloud-cuckoo land of titled old blighters, muscular viragoes and fluffy-minded bachelors that he first celebrated 67 books ago. In his 68th, he demonstrates that he has lost little of his zany zest for a world that once put Essayist John W. Aldridge in mind of "an incubator of oafdom." The oafs in Biffen's Millions are all after an obscure-ly willed fortune...