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...Railway Express truck pulled up at a big yellow brick house on Chicago's North Drake Avenue one morning last week, and as the deliveryman handed over a package, he said knowingly, "Here's another one for the doc." Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein took the package out to the garage, set it on his workbench and stripped the wrappings. With a screwdriver, the doctor pried the top off a shiny new quart can. In it, well preserved by wrappings of formaldehyde-soaked gauze, was a human brain...
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...
...three agreed that the club should hold another election in which a full quorum would be present. Eighteen of the club's members constitute a quorum. Perlstein and Williams, in the event he should be elected to office, agreed to "follow the constitution" in future actions of the club...
...However, Perlstein specifically denied five of the nine charges levied against the HSMR. These charges were mostly of a technical nature, involving such matters as having a copy of the constitution in the organization's office; and informing the full membership of a meeting...
Abramson last night said that he believed the matter was settled "out of Council," although there was a disagreement between Leyland and Perlstein over the specific charges in the petition...