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...Doctors are learning to control phenyl-pyruvic oligophrenia, a brain-crippling disease of infants caused by the body's failure to assimilate a protein called phenylalanine. University of Minnesota nutritionists report the case of a one-year-old boy in whom a diet of enriched and predigested milk protein, plus fruits and vegetables, arrested the disease.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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