Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trees and birds and beasts." In terror and wonder, he presents himself to his wife. She takes one look at his back and drives him out of the house. "Idolatry! Idolatry!" Broken and bewildered but blazoned in bliss, the redneck stands in the widening day and cries like a newborn babe...
...American babies less than a year old die of inborn heart defects. "Eighty percent of these infants could be saved by surgery," says Baylor University's Pediatrician Dan G. McNamara. The trouble is, Dr. McNamara told an international meeting on the heart and circulation of the newborn, that not enough physicians are trained to detect the sometimes subtle signs that a "cranky" baby may actually have severe deformities of the heart or major blood vessels...
...experiments have been with the tiny ΦX174, which normally attacks only bacteria. It may seem a long leap to any useful application in human medicine, but Immunologist Uhr, who is now director of the Irvington House Institute for Rheumatic Fever and Allied Diseases, has already shown that newborn babies react to ΦX in much the same way as guinea pigs. And children's reactions to antigens are immensely important in rheumatic fever, which seems to result from the body's mistaking part of its own heart muscle for an invading bacterial antigen...
...Miller does not advocate chilling as a routine treatment for the newborn. Indeed, he insists that it should not be started until a baby has failed to breathe for five minutes after delivery.* Then, while efforts to start respiration continue, the child should be immersed in cold tap water, flat on his back, so that only his mouth, nose, eyes and untrimmed umbilical cord are out of the water. The baby's blood may be cooled as low as 68°F. If the procedure ever wins wide U.S. approval, chilling might be helpful for several thousand babies...
...adults, oxygen deprivation causes irreversible brain damage within about four minutes. Nature's wisdom gives the newborn an extra ten or 15 minutes...