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f7i ffS S G (Rv 0 " & 0 0 0 o 3C3Q O o O CO O G33C 0 0 ,o o CO o o & o o o o o u o n w O Ttio Medical Roundup Emeritus Coniulunt IB Jhladlela. Mayo l-lu.le Emarltul Prolesiur of Mldlcta. Uaj CUbM Sudden Death in Children One of the most distressing happenings in life is the sud den death of a lovely child, Jk"!T perhaps d u r X.H I in a minor W ) f I operation. Of I I ten, then, it I JJRrIT, ,J takes years IST 'A-il for the par- I y.JSi.1;sr ents and the ftV if J doctor to get II ""Jr 'J I over the shock iftC'jr i ' lne occur" y' I r n c e . The Dii. alvabez parents and the doctor keep wondering what could have caused the death; they keep blaming themselves, and wondering if, in some way, the disaster could have been foreseen and avoided. In many cases even a careful autopsy has failed to show why the child died. Now comes Dr. Louis Good man of Pittsburgh to describe how, in some cases, with spec- ial technics, a p a t h o 1 o gist (who studies the tissues with a microscope) can show the presence of a disease called endomyocardial fibroelastosis, which scars and greatly weak ens the heart muscle. In five cases, an infant was found dead in its crib, and the poor mother was filled with a ter rible sense of guilt because she thought the child had suf focated with the bed-clothes over its nose and mouth. But at each autopsy there was found the peculiar form of heart disease, plus a little pneumonia just enough to trigger the death. Other chil dren with this disease died with a beginning measles, or during a tonsillectomy, a spi nal tap, or a very minor oper ation. In one case, a 14-year-old boy collapsed and died after running to catch a ball. As Dr. Goodman said, we do ,not yet know Just what disease leaves the scars and the weakness in the heart muscle. What has impressed me much, of late, has been the discovery that some of the viruses that commonly give children a fever tend to at tack and injure the muscle of the heart. They can leave the heart so weakened that it takes only a very little extra infection to cause death. Regional Enteritis There Is a strange, puzzling, and fortunately rare disease in which the wall of a short segment of the small bowel becomes thickened and chron ically inflamed. Unfortunate ly, the cause Is not known, nnd even the strongest anti biotic."! have no curative ef fect. In one scries of cases, the average age at onset was 24 years. The earliest symp toms are likely to be crampy abdominal pair, with much gas, and perhaps vomiting and diarrhea and some fever. The diagnosis usually can be made with the help of x-ray. Recently, there appeared an authoritative article by Drs. B. P. Colcock and J. H. Van sant of the Lahey Clinic, of Button. They reported the re sults of treating 36 patients with this disease. Of these, 88 per cent were operated on. Of the 304 who were operated on at the Lahry Clinic, with removal of the diseased seg ment, 76.3 per cent got a good result. Some of the patients had to be operated on a sec ond or a third time, but 52.2 per cent of them eventually got a good and lasting result. Evidently, then, although the disease is usually a severe and dangerous one. in perhaps one in six cases the palienl can get by on medical treatment, and in three out cf four of the patients operated on, a good result can be obtained by an able surgeon. A Foreign-Born Child Dr. Morris A. Wessel of New Haven, Connecticut has recently written a fine study of some of the problems of adopting a child. As he says, in this country, in 1057, some 100.000 unmarried mothers were reported to birth regis tration authorities. Of these mothers one in five was under the age of 18. Many came from college campuses. Naturally, there are many terrible problems that face these girls when their baby is born. Some don't want to see (he baby and some do. Often the girl's parents are terribly distressed over what has hap pened. Under these circum stances, a wise and kindly physician can do much to help the girl and her family to de cide what to do with the baby. The women in a fine "place ment agency" can help even more. It the child is to be given for adoption, the sooner this is done the better. It it not good for a child to be left a while in an "orphan asyl um." if an infant is to develop a normal temperament he should have frequent atten tion from a loving woman. Dr. Wessel advises against people's adopting, a sighl-un seen, perhaps "a malnourish ed, frightened, uncommunica live Korean waif." Many fam ilies who have tried this sort of thing have found the ex perience disappointing and even unbearable, and the end result has been hard on. the child. Dr. Alvarez' booklet on heart trouble may be obtained 1 AAlb TO AJgl, ).. 1VA 'ridiy. y e, Met Project Echo Shot Postponed Cap Canaveral, rla. IIPB The United States is expected to try again next week to get I trouble-ridden space rocket into the skies with its "radio mirror" balloon satellite Echo I. The shot, which had been set for today, was grounded for the week end by a balky second stage in the new rocket. Scientists first had hoped to get the 100-foot sphere into the skies Thursday. Then came one 24-hour delay and finally Thursday'! indefinite postponement. Indications were that the launching, first In the Project Echo series to develop a sys tem of global communica tions, would be attempted "sometime next week." No definite date was mentioned. An auto-pilot in the second stage of Ihe 92-foot tall Thar- Delta rocket, which will be making its space duty debut was blamed for the postponements. 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