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...Richard J. Merrill of California, livened his remarks with a list of "Pleasant and Unpleasant Surprises." A sampler of the Unpleasant: "Only 38% of nines and 49% of adults could time ten swings of a pendulum. Only 41% of 17s and 45% of adults knew the function of the placenta. Only 18% of 17s knew that nuclei are more dense than the rest of the atom; 93% thought that metal cans for food are made chiefly of tin." Among the Pleasant: "Ninety-two percent of nines and 98% of 13s know that a human baby comes from its mother...
...National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis eases proposed an unorthodox explanation. The inherited antibody, he suggested, actually makes babies more vulnerable to the potentially fatal dis ease. First, Dr. Chanock distinguished between several kinds of antibody ("im-munoglobulins"), which immunologists label alphabetically. Only type G passes the placenta and gets into the fetal blood; the others are developed later...
...apparently pick up the infection from contaminated feed or water, after which the vibrios settle quietly in their genitalia and cause no discernible illness in adult animals. They have been detected in many seemingly healthy stud bulls and are transmitted to the female in mating. Then they attack the placenta and kill the fetal animals, causing them to be aborted...
...possible to say whether Vibrio fetus is rare in human beings, or a common but usually undetected cause of prematurity or spontaneous abortion. The place to look for the evidence, says Dr. Eden, is in the placenta...
Wrinkle preparations are as old as vanity, and over the centuries have been concocted from wax, incense, ale, bread, synthetic hormones, turtle oils and placenta extracts. The latest lotions are made from, of all things, cows' blood. Developed by the research laboratories of meat-packing Armour & Co., the process uses proteins drawn from the blood to temporarily smooth and fill in furrows, much like a glossy, translucent mudpack. The lotions are invisible on the face, because they react to light the same way that human skin does...