Word: perlstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This horrifying case, proving that drug-addicted mothers produce drug-addicted babies, was reported last week by Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein of Chicago in the American Medical Association Journal. Said the doctor: "Separation from the maternal circulation shuts off the supply of drug to the newborn. . . ." If not treated, the baby may die of convulsions within a.week. Dr. Perlstein used a standard treatment for drug addiction-sedatives. Tapered off the phenobarbital after eight weeks, his baby patient emerged safely from its morphine...