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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdford, Or.
Thursday, Aug. 20, 1959
Child Can Become
Addicted To Dope
Prior To Birth
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New York (Science Service)
A child can become a dope ad
dict before he is born if his
mother take narcotics during
her pregnancy, three New
York pediatricians report
here.
The problem of addiction in
the newborn infant may mul
tiply in the near future due to
the increasing trend in drug
addiction, Drs. Ralph W. Co
brinik, R. Thornton Hood Jr.,
and Emanuel Chusid, all of
the New York Medical col
lege, explained.
Infants Studied
The three investigators
studied 22 newborn infants
whose mothers were addicts
plus a review of the literature
of the narcotics problem in
the newborn since 1875.
Their conclusions were that:
1. Infants exhibit narcotic
addiction by presenting diffi
culty in feeding, vomiting and
diarrhea, yawning, sneezing
and fever. The severity of
these symptoms appeared to
depend upon how much of the
narcotic was taken by the
mother and her method of
taking it.
Treatment Used
2. Paragoric, phenobarbital,
chlorpromazine, calcium and
reserpine were used in treat
ing the infants. The most ef
fective results were obtained
with paragoric and chlorpro
mazine in diminishing
amounts. Too rapid or too
sudden a reduction of the dose
only brought the infant back
to its condition at birth.
3. A review of the litera
ture revealed that one mother
who took a large daily dose
of morphine, 600 mgs, deliver
ed a normal infant. One of
the 22 mothers studied took
less but had an addicted in
fant at birth.' Therefore, each
mother's ability to addict her
unborn child is an individual
case. '
Doctors Agree
4. Among those infants ad
dicted through their mothers,
37 received no therapy. Of
these, 33 died, the doctors re
port in their review of avail
able literature.
Many doctors appear to
agree that if the addicted
pregnant woman is not seen
until her seventh month of
, pregnancy, there should be no
attempt to withdraw her from
the drug until two months
after the birth of the baby.
The three investigators point
out that since they have ob
tained excellent results with
proper care of the newborn,
there is little reason to jeop
ardize the pregnancy by treat
ing the mother severely. Their
report appears in the journal
Pediatrics (Aug.).
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COMFORTS INJURED MOTHER Weeping Paula Anne Petrolito, 7, tries to comfort
her mother, Mrs. Celia Petrolito, one of nine persons injured in four-car collision on
Long Island Expressway at Maspeth, N. Y.
Combat Pilots May
Be Guided by TV
Paramus, N. J. - (Science
Service) Combat pilots may
soon be guided by airborne
television sets as they fly
towards their objectives. The
television sets, will show the
plane5s changing position and
the objective superimposed
upon a map of the underlying
terrain. The pilot will simply
"fly" the image of his plane
on the television screen di
rectly to his target. The
closed circuit television sets
are being developed by the
Avion Division of-ACF In
dustries here for the Army
Navy Instrument Program.
by Ed Fitzgerald
The more iments Alex
Olmedo wins for the United
States, the more some
sporfswriters complain
Read about Peru's gift to
American tennis in the ,
August 23
Family
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
The Leokdown Fish
Have High Foreheads
If an : exceedingly high
forehead is one of the import
ant criteria of a superior in
telligence, then the "look
down" fish should be an out
standing genius. Having one's
entire front end developed
into such a ' high forehead
would seem to be a definite
handicap, especially when one
must live among the pitifully
illiterate where the lookdown
must necessarily live.
His entire front end is fore
head. And he's just as unusual
in many other ways, too. His
body shape is moon-like.
Viewed from the side he's al
most as round as the full
moon. Viewed from directly
in front or straight from the
rear, he has about the thick
ness of a piece of plywood.
Seldom, if ever does the
lookdown fish exceed 12 inch
es in length, and the body di
ameter from top' to bottom,
or from .tail to head, is just
about the same. If you
watched one of these fish
passing by it would be con
spicuous, but coming directly
toward you, or going straight
away from you, its extreme
thinness becomes actually
startling. .
Usually they are highly and
brightly colored. Some have
mother-of-pearl linisn tnat
glistens and sparkles like a
great, flat jewel. The colors
are rich and lustrous; resplen-
dant in rich purples, yellows
and various shades of blue.
To make them even more
ornate than most fish, Mother
Nature decorated these spiney-
rayed fish with long, filmy
filaments that stream out
from the ventral fins like
gaudy streamers. Frequently
the dorsal fm high up on tne
fish's back is also produced
into silky filiments that wave
like banners in the water as
the fish swims.
One close relative of the
lookdown fish, the so-called
threadfish. has its dorsal
filaments developed into ex
ceedingly long, tread-like pro
cesses. Another member of the
group, the true moonfish,
whose forehead carries a pro
nounced bump which saved
his countenance from being
all forehead, probably knows
just as much as the look-down,
but lacks the stupid looking
front end.
Nearly Transparent
The very young of the moon
fish, which of course includes
the look-down and the thread
fish, are nearly transparent.
Held over a white sheet of
paper, under a strong light,
the internal organs become
visible. As the little fish de
velops, the long filaments be
come shorter, until at adult
hood the fish may be entire-y
free of the thread-like "stream
ers." Just what the function of
these thread-like filaments is
has never been established, un
less they resemble sea weeds
enough to fool predator fish.
It is known that the young
of the moonfish hide in sea
weed for the early part of
their life.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate. 1959)
DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION
New York (DPD - American
smokers use about 96 per cent
of all U.S. tobacco output,
while the remaining 4 per
cent is accounted for by com
mercial exports, industry
sources say.
PUGS IN "FINE SHAPE"
Philadelphia (DPD- Unbeat
en Von Clay of Philadelphia
and fourth-ranked light heavy
weight Sonny Ray of Chicago
were pronounced in "fine
shape" by Dr. Alfred Ayella
Monday for the nationally
televised bout Friday night. ,
Cafch-all Pockets
Cloud of Comets
Surrounds Sun
Cows' Mastitis
Human Problem
Washington (Science Serv
ice) Steps are being taken to
reduce the amount of penicil
lin found in milk. .
The most recent survey of
the nation's milk shows the
amount of the antibiotic is
down to approximately the
same levels reported back in
1954.
Food and Drug Administra
tion officials, concerned over
the health problem in which
one in ten persons is highly
sensitive to penicillin, are
studying ways to further re
duce the contamination.
The penicillin gets into the
milk when cows are treated
for mastitis, a costly cattle
disease. Dairy men are
warned to wait 72 hours by
which time the penicillin is
eliminated before marketing
milk from doctored cows. Ad
ditional warnings to abide by
this waiting period and a re
duction in the penicillin dose
are credited with bringing the
percentage of contaminated
milk down to 3.7. The previ
ous high was J 1.6 per cent in
1955.
Discovery of a marker com
pound that would be added to
penicillin, indicating its pres
ence in milk, would help
solve this public health prob
lem. Dr. William R. Jester of
the FDA said.
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Needlecraft Catalogue has
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A special gift, in the catalog
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Cambridge, Mass. (Science
Service) The sun is surround
ed by a large cloud of comets,
most of them at such vast dis
tances they are invisible from
earth.
These comets may have
been formed at the same time
as other members of the sun's
system from the original gase
ous cloud, and with further
growth might have become
asteroids or even planets.
Thus studies of comets can
provide inuch insight into the
origin of the solac system.
Comets have very low tem
peratures. They are believed
to be composed of icy mix
tures of frozen matter. Even
when comets approach rela
tively close to the sun, they
remain extremely cold. Their
temperatures then reach only
to about 190 degrees below
zero Fahrenheit, due to the
cooling effect when the com
et's volatile gases are released
by solar heating, Dr. Bertram
Donn of Wayne State Univer
sity, Detroit, has calculated.
Because comets are so cold
throughout their lifetimes,
they probably have not under
gone any extensive chemical
changes since their formation
from the original solar
nebula.
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