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...problem is growing, says Manhattan Pediatrician Herman Schneck in the Journal of Pediatrics. But if physicians train themselves to look for the phenomenon and make an early diagnosis, the addict's child can be weaned away in time. Reason: the baby's "addiction" is physiological, not psychic, can be cured by sedative drugs. To prevent emotional ties that could make the "addiction" psychic, the first move is to take the child from its mother. Best treatment is administering opiates or tranquilizers (Thorazine and reserpine seem most effective) in gradually diminishing amounts over a period of days or weeks...
...back into maternity research. Going far beyond the skeletal birth, height, weight and teething records of conventional baby books, the volume was designed originally by an obstetrician, has now been revised by eleven medical specialists, includes the memorabilia that mothers love plus space for data that should help the pediatrician and have lasting value to doctors who treat the subject long beyond babyhood...
Famed Surgeon Alfred Blalock repaid part of the debt he owes to dogs for the use he made of them in perfecting his blue-baby operation. Squeaky, a seven-month old female Rottweiler, was suspected of having a heart defect. Examination by Blalock and Pediatrician Helen Taussig showed that the trouble was really an intestinal block from an auto accident. Decision: immediate surgery. Time for operation, performed by Surgeon Blalock, in the animal operating room of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital: 1½ hours. The patient did fine...
Like half a dozen others that had recently arrived, this brain came from a child who had just died with cerebral palsy. It gave Dr. Perlstein, pediatrician at both Cook County and Michael Reese Hospitals, one more chance to learn additional details about the grim affliction which is not directly fatal but is severely handicapping, sometimes shortens life by lowering resistance. The specimen was listed in the brain registry of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy (which Dr. Perlstein helped to found in 1949) and sent on to Pathologist Herman Josephy at Chicago State Hospital. Dr. Josephy may take...
...Body, One Ax. Last March, a peripatetic U.S. virologist and pediatrician (with a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...