Word: shwachman
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...taunted runt as a child in Bowling Green, Ohio. His growth had been stunted by Shwachman's syndrome, a disease that interferes with normal digestion. But Hamilton, at age eight, serendipitously found a therapy: ice skating...
...cystic fibrosis may reveal itself by the infant's inability to pass stools. Surgeons at Babies Hospital have devised a daring operation to open the intestine and flush it out with a trypsin solution. This technique is also being used in Boston under the guidance of Pediatrician Harry Shwachman, and in Los Angeles by Dr. Stephen Royce and his associates. It has prevented many deaths. After surgery, such a child will present the same problems as those whose symptoms develop a few months later in life...
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