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The Medical Roundup Emeritus ConmJtant In Medicine, Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Mayo Foundation THE CARE OF A SICK CHILD I just read a very helpful book on the care of sick children by Mrc. Paulette Kahn Hartrich. Mrs. Hartrich was well pre parpared to write on this subject because of her asso ciation with groups inter essted in par ent education, and b e c a u se once, for six months, one of her children wa3 ill. As she says, "It was out of my efforts to meet my own child's needs that I began to think of writing a book on the parents' role in their children's health." The book is filled witn information about the many problems that arise when a child i3 ill: How he (or she), feels and reacts, and what his fears are. There are chapters on how the parents should react to the ill ness of the child; on what they can do to keep the child happy, and what they must not do. For instance; they must never lie to the cWld as they take him to a hospital or up to the operating room. The parent who lies to a child may, for years, have to work hard to undo the harm that he has done, and to get back the confidence of the child. Very helpful is the appendix c-t the end of the book, telling parents where they can find guidance and help with their .problems. In many cases, parents could get help by appealing to a group such as the National As- yociation for Mental Health or The Children's Bureau of the United States; or the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, or The Association for Family Living, or The Child's Study Association of America. Appendix B gives the names of a number of books and ar ticles that parents might well read, and Appendix C gives a Dioiiograpny 01 materials on problems of health and illness. This book should be in the li brary of every family where there are small children, and especially children who are ill. An Epileptic Pleads For Frankness A fine, able epileptic woman tells me how, as a child, when the spells began to strike her down, she came to feel so lonely, partly because the other chil dren shunned her a bit, and largely because her father and mother could not bear to face her problem or discuss it with her. They would not answer her many questions as to what her epilepsy would mean to her in the future. They were so ashamed of what had happened to her and them that her father gave up his position in the city and moved onto an isolated farm where they could hide. This isolation added to the child's problems and sorrows, because she was bright and she greatly wanted to get a good education. Her parents would not let her go to school. She much needed expert medical care which her kindly country doctor admitted he was not trainde to give. But good doctor that he was, he wrote to the Na tional Epilepsy League and got the name of an expert neurolo gist in the nearest large city. When consulted, this man tried combinations of the new drugs until he found that a mixture of dilantin and mysoline would keep her spells under control. Girl Doubly Happy Then the girl became doublj happy because the expert back ed up her desire to go to school in a lew years sne was working as a secretary. Now she is mar ried and has two lovely and healthy daughters. This able woman says so wise ly, My ambition now is to rear my children always in the light." She plans to answer all their questions honestly and frankly. Later, when they begin to think of marrying she will have elec troencephalograms made to see if the girls show signs of being carriers of epilepsy. Perhaps she can induce the girls' beaux also to have electroencephalograms made to make sure that they, too, are not carriers. As I have pointed out, it is dangerous for two carriers of eplepsy to marry because then some of their chil dren are likely to have trouble. If only one is a carrier, the danger is not so great. Violent Temper What do I mean by a carrier? He is a person who, at concep tion, received so little of the tendency to epilepsy that he never has had a fit, and prob ably never will have one. All he has. perhaps, is a violent tem per, perhaps some surliness, or much irritability, nervousness or depression. Experts say so truly that only one epleptic in 10 or 20 ever had a convulsion. Some have queer brief spells of distress which almost certainly are epileptic in nature. For in- U&y ft ' -3 I '.' ts Ji a ' "i 4 - ' B ti ltU. PA A "nw if i I t "PlSL ' ..... THEN, NOW AND TOMORROW Twenty years ago Pan American World Airways established ihe first trans-Pacific airline with the famous China Clipper (top) passing over the Golden Gate at top speed of 130 m.p.h. Today, the job is done by the Boeing Strato Clipper (center) at 300 m.p.h. The PAA Clipper of tomorrow (artist's conception, bottom), one of 20 on order, is the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 jetliners. They'll cruise the Pacific at 575 m.p.h. Marine Firemen Refuse To Sign Aboard Ships San Francisco (U.R) AFL Marine Firemen have refused to sign aboard West Coast ships in a dispute over vacation pay. The dispute threatened to de lay the sailing of the American President Liner President Wilson for the Orient tomorrow, as well as a number of other ships. stance; I just saw a man who, every so often becomes silent. He will not answer his wife when she asks, "What is the mat ter?" For some .seconds he will make chewing ' movements; he may smack his lips, aVid he may rub one eye with the back of his hand. Another patient of mine has frightening spells in which the world seems to be going farther and farther away and getting smaller and smaller. His mother and aunt had falling spells, but he has never fallen. Dr. Alvarez regrets he hasn't the time in which to read or answer requests for information. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1955) According to Sam Bennett, un ion vice-president, the Marine Firemen are seeking vacation pay parity with two other un ions, the AFL Sailors and Mar ine Cooks. Communist East Germany Faces Potato Famine Bonn, Germany (U.R) Com munist East Germany faces a po tato famine and other serious food shortages this winter, the Socialist Party press service said yesterday. The supply of potatoes in cities is becoming "ever more catastrophic," the report said, and has led to desperate meas ures such as sending untrained worker brigades into fields to save as much of the harvest as possible. The agency said the bad har vest was due to a shortage of farm laborers, thousands of whom have fled to the West in recent years. 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Today, young Israel calls its boom-town Beersheba the begin ning of the southern frontier the ftegev territory that covers nearly o,u00 square miles of chal lenging desert beyond. Beersheba lies almost in the heart of irregular, elongated Is rael. Roughly halfwav between the Mediterranean on the west; ana tne Dead Sea on the east, it commands a road-and-trail hub strategic in war and trade for countless centuries. During the Arab-Israel war of 1948, Beersheba was taken from Egyptian forces in the Israeli sweep through the Neeev. Its several thousand Arab inhabi tants fled, leaving behind the skeleton of a town. Seven years and an intensive development program have changed Beersheba beyond rec ognition. It is now a city of 20,000 people. Excent for a few nomad Bedouin tribesmen drift ing into town for supplies, vir tually the entire population is Israeli. Carpenters, clumbers. factory hands, technicians, doc tors, teachers, and engineers are building and serving an increas ingly urban and industrial cen ter. Beersheba's atmosphere, visi tors say, has the tang of a fron tier settlement of the old Amer ican West. Only instead of sad-dle-and-wagon horses hitched to posts, the Near East streets are lined with parked trucks, cars, taxis and army jeeps. Old Beersheba's mosque still stands, its minaret a hieh Doint against the sky! But nearly every- tmng else is new, from prefabri cated homes to stores, banks, synagogues, hotels, movies and hospital. Here and there a bulldozer, crane or cement mixer at work hints at more construction need ed to carry out government plans to make Beersheba the manufacturing and training key to future settlement through the Negev. Several research and develop ment organizations have set up headquarters in Beersheba to study Negev potentialities. One, the Desert Research Institute, has opened a natural history museum and a botanical garden where promising crops and pas ture grasses are tested. As in ancient times, Beersheba of the "seven walls" is again linked with life-giving irriga tion. From local and distant wells, both new and old pipe lines bring water to this main junction, sending it on through an expanding network of pipes to pioneer farm sites. The Negev's future industrial capital also is investigating available mineral deposits to feed its chemical and other fac tories oil just struck to the northwest, potash from the Dead Sea, rock phosphate, mica, gyp sum, silicate sand, and copper from mines that Solomon work ed. The new highways streak east and south from Beersheba, tap ping Dead Sea resources at So dom, and reaching Negev outlet at the Gulf of Aqaba. A railway from the north is now almost at Beersheba's door. Such efforts to make the des ert productive recall ancient set tlements that prospered in this unlikely region. South of Beer sheba lie ruins of the ingenious dew-catching rock piles of an energetic people who once farm ed successfully there. Near by, Abraham grazed his flocks, and on the Beersheba site the Patri arch and Abimelech, King . of Gerar, made their covenant (Genesis 21:22) to live together in peace. Steamer Rescues 45 In South China Sea Manila, P.I. (U.R) ' Globe Wireless . has reported the steamship Symphony rescued 45 crew members of the distressed freighter Fakira in two lifeboats somewhere in the South China sea. Lloyds Register of Shipping reports the 7000-ton vessel, reg istered out of Pakistan, is own ed by the George A. Fuller Co., of Wilmington, Del. A message received today by Globe Wireless from the Sym phony said the "master and some of th crew'-' were still aboard the Fakira awaiting arrival of a tug. 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