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Cure. At four, this boy still sucked his thumb and wet his bed, was afraid of dogs and so timid that he accepted protection from his two-year-old brother in fights with other children. But the mother responded to institute therapy, which encouraged mothers and children in outside interests. The boy, when last seen at age 15, was doing well at school, was a good swimmer, had a girl, showed every promise of leading a normal life...
...Rules of Thumb...
Sirs: Your warning in TIME, Dec. 22, that the "few rules of thumb" listed for telling Chinese from Japanese are "not always reliable" is an unparalleled masterpiece of understatement. Such absurd generalities as "Japanese are nervous in conversation, laugh loudly at the wrong time," or "most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles" would have certainly made the eminent Dr. Samuel Johnson apoplectic. ... I feel the appropriateness of an admonishing Tsk ! Tsk ! MARTIN J. KATZ Philadelphia...
Stopper. In Boston, Dr. Richard H. Norton offered a solution (tested on his granddaughter) for the problem of thumb sucking by girls aged three and up: appeal to their vanity, paint their nails...
...minutes. Teachers first show students the various pressure points on the body where serious bleeding can be stopped, later teach them how to make tourniquets to stanch hemorrhage. For asphyxia and drowning, students are taught artificial respiration. For poisoning, they are given one good old rule of thumb: dilute the contents of the stomach at once by filling the victim with water. Then stick your finger down his throat till he throws...