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...regarded as an expert in the field of lung disorders in the newborn infant...
Avery co-authored Diseases of the Newborn with Dr. Alexander J. Schaffer, and she is currently a member of the editorial board of the American Review of Respiratory Disease...
...process is only partly understood. Apparently formed when a low-pressure area develops over warm tropical waters, the newborn storm system is fed by evaporation from the sea. Helped by the whirling winds in the area (which move in a counterclockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern), the rate of evaporation gradually increases. As the water vapor rises from the sea, it cools, condenses and releases enormous amounts of heat into the atmosphere. The heat, in turn, causes more evaporation and condensation, further fueling the brewing storm like the updraft in a chimney. As the winds...
There is no real shortage of food, but much of it goes to feed the roundworms, whipworms and hookworms that live in the bodies of nine out of ten villagers. A newborn baby has only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving its first year. Tuberculosis, polio, whooping cough and measles are all commonplace. So is the sight of children carrying tiny coffins to a graveyard...
...melodrama-subtitle it The Snob's Revenge-Read's romance twirls its waxed mustaches too wickedly. (In training for his major villainies, the parson's son also steals, pimps, and drowns a newborn baby.) Read's true gothic gift is for translating melodrama into a morality play: plotting on tabloid pulp paper while commenting on the finest India leaf. It is as a study of repentance that Read's story demands to be taken seriously...