Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biguanides, the Joslin Clinic's Dr. Leo P. Krall conceded (after trial in 244 patients) that they "are capricious unless the physician uses them with special understanding." But he insisted that DBI, given along with reduced doses of insulin, has helped some unstable diabetics to lead a more normal life than they could when they took insulin several times a day. Main trouble: there is a narrow margin of safety between the DBI dose needed to control the blood sugar level and the dose that may produce side effects, so treatment in severe cases should begin in a hospital...
...enough doctors and nurses are trained in the special handling of incubator cases, said Dr. Dennis, especially in regulating the oxygen supply, now that it is known that an excess of oxygen can cause blindness (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). Even with the best of care, many preemies begin to suffocate because a membrane blocks the lungs' air sacs: nobody knows why half of such cases get better and show no ill effects, while the other half die. Bile pigment, which the immature liver cannot handle, may pile up in the blood and cause brain damage. Best way to treat...
...special train with the coat of arms of Pius X was made up at Vatican City station. A group of 23 Vatican officials, plus government bigwigs accompanied the Pope's body on its journey. In Venice, the body of St. Pius X, enclosed in a glass coffin, was borne to a navy barge rowed to the rhythm of a drum. Followed by a procession of gondolas, the barge headed up the Grand Canal to St. Mark's, where a choir of 2,000 children and almost everyone in Venice waited...
...next month, Pius X will lie before a special altar in the basilica. Venice was only disappointed that Pope John himself had not been able to make the journey. "Without your help," he told the Vatican workers who carried the coffin of Pius X, "I hope to go alive...
...part, the church is well aware that the military mind needs some special retooling before being turned loose on a flock. Says the Rev. Peter Curgenven, General Secretary of the Central Advisory Council, which is in charge of training the swelling ranks of officer-clerics: "These chaps have to learn that they can't issue orders for people to turn up at church-or court-martial habitual sinners...