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TIME'S poignant Oct. 29 story on how Industrial Technician John Holter developed a brain valve to save the life of his baby son, suffering from hydrocephalus, implied that only Holler's baby had been saved. At least 65 children suffering from water on the brain have had their lives saved by means of the surgical insertion of a Holter brain valve...
John Holter, then a technician at the Yale...
...prison, the victim of a fellow convict's straight razor in a shower-bath row framed in homosexualism. Leopold lives on, a sad, heavy-set man of 51, deeply read in many languages, and fascinated by medical research which he works at along with his job as technician in the Stateville prison hospital. Leopold declares, with medical pedantry, that no cell in his body is the same as that of the boy who once killed another...
...seventh month running, a book called Arthritis and Common Sense (Witkower Press; $3.95), by one Dan Dale Alexander, was high on U.S. bestseller lists. It is .sadly misnamed. Alexander is no man of medicine, but a sometime medical technician in the Army (where he rose to the rank of Pfc.) who got a Ph.D. from a London diploma mill. Burden of the book (aside from emphasis on the imagined importance of a full output of ear wax): "Arthritis is a deficiency of specific dietary oils. This deficiency results in a ... lack of better-grade lubricating oils for the bodily joints...
...valve, which would stay in place. Pediatricians, who had just heard Dr. Spitz's report, were hopeful that his technique and Holter's valve would be the answer to hundreds of cases of this type of hydrocephalus each year in the U.S. John Holter quit his technician's job, was devoting his whole time to making the valves that had saved...