Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medicine has neglected the study of dwarfism. Stature of four feet has become conventional demarkation between normal and little people. Midgets are well-proportioned dwarfs. True dwarfs have big heads, shoulders, chests and buttocks, short extremities. Causes of dwarfism include heredity, disease of the thyroid, pituitary or kidneys, disturbances in the changing of cartilage into bone, or essential infantilism. If Europe produces more dwarfs (and midgets) than the U. S., the explanation may be with Europe's greater population (550,000,000 to 122,775,000 which statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism...
...Rejected (49-to-31) "soak-the-rich" wartime normal and surtax income rates...
...Approved the Finance Committees normal (3%, 6%, 9%) and surtax (45% maximum) income rates...
...gait is quite characteristic. The toes scrape along the floor, the heels are not brought down, and the spasm of the thigh muscles forces the individual to move in a cross-legged fashion. Speech is difficult, and not infrequently profuse salivation with drooling tends to reflect against the normal mentality of the patient. On some occasions, these reactions may not be apparent, or may be limited to only one or two muscle groups, while on others the entire body musculature is thrown into a chaos of writhing movements with such violence that one would think the entire store of volitional...
...hour daily should be allotted to muscle training, followed by an hour of relaxation, and during the remainder of the waking day the patient should be kept occupied by studies and by games tending to enhance coordination. Those in charge of the school should transfer the child to a normal school environment as soon as they feel he is equipped to compete with children in the schoolroom...