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Writing in the British medical weekly Lancet, the investigators describe the palm lines of 100 normal children and how they compare with those of 25 children with acute or chronic leukemia. Thirty-six percent of the leukemic children had either a simian or a Sydney line in one or both...
It was by no means the first time in medical history that hope had been raised by discovery of a chemical difference between schizophrenics and normals, but it was by far the most specific, and done under the most rigorous research conditions.
Then, said Dr. Clarke, it was found that the low steroid levels marked the patients who were depressed, apathetic and withdrawn. The near-normals were alert, cooperative and interested in their surroundings. The above-normals were ridden with conflicts and anxiety and often showed such other signs as fast heartbeat...
"When Congress sets the goals of farm prices and farm incomes at figures far above current economic normals, as it has done, it not only creates insoluble problems. It also forces the adoption of drastic measures certain to fall short of the goal, which in turn create fresh, complicated problems...