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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sandra's trouble: embryonal nephroma or Wilms tumor (named for German Surgeon Marx Wilms, 1867-1918). The disease is an expanding growth of the kidney which rapidly fills the abdomen and hinders normal functions. It usually causes a relatively painless death within six months after diagnosis. The doctors, who might have removed Sandra's kidney if the condition had been discovered sooner, shook their heads. The medical men knew better than anyone else how often modern medicine, with all its touted knowledge and skill, has to stand back and accept defeat...
...premature baby is full of blood vessels which would have disappeared in the last few weeks of a normal pregnancy. In the unlucky ones, the vessels never go away, causing partial or total blindness. At three months, the child's eyes, still the same dull blue they were at birth, move jerkily, and a whitish tissue may be seen behind the pupils. Boston Eye Specialist Dr. Theodore L. Terry believes that exposure to too-early light may be the cause, recommends keeping the baby in the dark...
...weaker sex was back in strength at the University of Iowa last week, and the lonely coeds, able to pick & choose again, were back to normal...
...Baby's coming to grips with the world: at four weeks barely able to move the head, at four months gaining control of the fingers, at four years able to stick out the tongue at whoever happens to be handy. The film provides a quick glance at the normal patterns of infant behavior, and suggests that if parents understood these patterns better, there would be less worrying, less nagging and less slapping...
Crowding of College facilities Conant regards as inevitable when 4700 servicemen on leave of absence return to share classes and living quarters with a normal entering class of 1000. Next September the number will probably...