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...campaigns yet mapped against the disease got under way at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. Directing the work were two well-matched experts: Dr. Francis Schwentker, 42, new head of the Hopkins pediatric staff who has just finished eight years of research on strep infections, and Dr. Helen Taussig, 48, head of the Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic and a famed authority on "blue babies...
Look to the Family. While Dr. Schwentker studies his rabbits, Dr. Taussig will continue her clinical work with child victims of the disease. She will also study the sociological factors which seem to be important in the spread of rheumatic fever. It tends to run in families, for example, and is far commoner in big cities than in the country, most often hits poor and underprivileged children...
William G. Taussig...
Finally the surgeon took away the clamps and let the blood flow. Just as he had hoped, it flowed up through the curved artery, around and down into the pulmonary artery and to the lungs. The baby began to breathe more freely. So did Dr. Blalock and Dr. Taussig...
Experience has taught Drs. Blalock and Taussig that the best age for the operation is between three and twelve. Under three, arteries are so small they are hard to work with; after twelve, poor circulation may have done permanent brain and lung damage. Before each operation, the surgeons tell the parents that the risks are great. Fathers, they have found, are the timid ones. Mothers usually say to go ahead...