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Last week Dr. Daniel Stowens, a Louisville pathologist, said he had found the explanation of H.M.D. and a simple, effective treatment: Epsom salts enemas. He told the College of American Pathologists that he had concluded from post-mortem examinations that H.M.D. victims suffered from an inability to get rid of excess water. Since the premature baby's kidneys may not be up to the job of ridding the body of excess water, Dr. Stowens suggested helping them with the Epsom salts enemas. In eight months, 28 babies with "severe respiratory distress and all clinical signs of hyaline membrane disease...
...called in honor of U.S. Pathologist Daniel E. Salmon...
...reared in Oxford, where her father is a public-health pathologist. For an actress, she has a fantastic lack of ego. "I'm a pinhead who's all eyes and teeth," she says. "I'm dull, uninteresting, shy, ordinary. No scalding sex life. No scandal. No punch-ups.* Even my best friends tell me I've got a nice bashed-in face...
Slice & Spin. Just as they cut tiny pieces of human tissue into microscopically thin slices to study the progress of disease, pathologists tend to slice up their own specialty. One main branch is called anatomic pathology, and its devotees concern themselves with structural changes in tissues, usually seen at autopsy. But it is also the anatomic pathologist who examines the piece of tissue from a patient still on the operating table and tells the surgeon whether or not it is cancerous...
...clinical pathologist runs the laboratories where blood tests are made, makes many of the tissue examinations himself, and studies minute changes in obscure body fluids. Both these classes of pathologists are "doctors' doctors." In their own cliche, they are the ones who have the last word. Farthest removed from the public are the comparative pathologists, who concern themselves with such basic problems as what disease is and why organisms grow old. Whatever part of their specialty they practice, pathologists learn to use a dazzling array of gadgets designed to help them find answers to forbiddingly difficult questions...