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...physical changes and makes her look like a boy. In a few years she will have a deep voice and may start to grow a beard. If the trouble comes later in childhood (perhaps as the result of an adrenal tumor), most of the changes will be superficial-flat chest, narrow hips, deep voice and hirsutism. In a boy, the effect is to produce excessive virility, commonly shown in sexual precocity and premature growth of body hair...
...Queensland, Australia, she expected to find teething trouble or an upset stomach. Instead, she found the stockman's 2½-year-old daughter lying crippled on a cot. One knee was drawn up, the foot pointed down and the heel twisted outward. One paralyzed arm lay across her chest. The nursing sister had never seen a case like it, so she drove miles to a telegraph office and wired a doctor for advice. His reply: "Infantile paralysis. No known treatment. Do the best...
...back to politics in the campaign manager's role. Ran Dewey's successful 1942 campaign for governor of New York, Dewey's 1944 and 1948 Presidential campaigns. Served as chairman of the Republican National Committee (1944-46), reorganized the committee, built up a $750,000 war chest...
Doctors can now look forward to routine abdominal X rays-perhaps as useful to preventive medicine as production-line chest X rays have been in the fight against TB. In the past, X-ray study of the intestines has been an expensive and time-consuming process. Where one chest X ray is usually enough, an examination of the stomach may need as many as six exposures. But the dense, intestine-packed abdominal cavity requires so much radiation for its shadow pictures that six slow exposures in succession may be dangerous for the patient...
...very short time, the machine can step up a heartbeat slowed to a dangerous 25 counts per minute to its normal 90. The current running through the resistant thick outer skin causes only a mild twitching of the chest, but no pain or burning...