Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 186, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 10, 1963 Page: 32 of 36
thirty six pages : ill. ; page 21 x 15 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Family 'WeeJkly / March 10,1963
e
with lack Ryan
Ul
p
■■ "
f
» 68 “
1
W
y
I
4
,1
« -
<
o
of the drug and other
{#u
0
[
I
4
1
s
I
s,
*
/
isitive
A
-
}
j'
V
I
31-355
2
-}
i
$
1
Family Weekly. March 10, 1963
13
#
Wo ran AarpgAf manIy nf
Live a
AggCHE
DeWitt’s PiEIs
D-Scholls hno pads
ZUD
•_1
bination
factors.
While
BUNIONS
^^REUEFt=, / )
Dr. Seholl‘» Zino-pade
speedily relieve peimful
I
> 1
(A
Put it in the very special care of
hospital-pro ved Dermassage, th*
professional-type lotion that relieves
excessive dryness fast/Dermassage
helps heal weather - irritated, cloth-
ing-chafed skin—gently sooth** and
comforts tender, itching skin. Great
for massaging tense, aching mus-
cles, too! Wear your skin soft,
smooth and supple...get
Dermassage lotion.
,0
R i
v
-F,
4
♦3
u 73
M 4
: •
104
jg
5-
r }
1 ‘
; 4,
^1
c
'7 am weU content,” Isabel told me, "in this place where I feel
happy juet to be alive, to ta»te each rich moment."
,t
tomsamTus ■ sms
Mm • come rors-I HUB -utus
RV21
R. •
-p
■rot noothe and
Ema
Im do with Dr.
Schoils — worid’e
Larget -miline aid
forBumione!
BUY
UNITED STATES
SAVINGS BONDS
use mild - diuretic action to hep
your system clear out acid wastes left
29
‘-te -
er
A
9
{2
J[
42,
IL c
“T
CT"
•"IIf beckache Md sy
59,.-
T TNTIL 20 years ago, he faced death
U or incapacitation. Then Dr. Rob-
ert Gross performed an operation
on an infant’s heart, closing off a
’malformed duct that was shunting
blood from its normal circulatory
route. From that pioneering effort,
surgeons have advanced until they
now probe the heart itself, mending
nature’s mistakes while machines
take over the job of circulating blood.
But if the heart had developed cor-
rectly, there would be less question
' of its enduring in adolescence and
adulthood. Was this an inherited de-
fect? Or did some agent thwart na-
ture—a drug the mother took, some-
thing awry in her body chemistry,
or a virus infection?
In 60 percent of the cases, we don’t
know what caused the anomalies,
although scientists believe most con-
genital defects result from a combin-
ation of causes. Are parents largely
to blame for the defects? Sometimes
they think so, yet there is little scien-
tific basis for this feeling. Only 20
percent of abnormalities have been
traced to inherited factors. Ten per-
cent probably come from chromosome
aberrations (a breakdown of the
chromosome, which helps pass on
parents’ characteristics, by nongene-
tic causes—radiation would be one
examplei, and another 10 percent
from virus infection.
f,
be able to reduce the chances of cellu-
lar growth getting off track during
a baby’s development.
Consider cleft palate again. Two
New Jersey doctors, Lyon P. Strean
and Lyndon A. Peer, made a study
of mothers of cleft-palate children.
Most had suffered some illness or
emotional disturbance, and in each
case at a stage of pregnancy when
the palate forms. Could these stresses
have caused the mothers’ adrenal
gland to produce extra hydrocorti-
sone which, in turn, retarded normal
formation of the baby’s palate’
The doctors injected female mice
with cortisone and other agents in
heavy dosage. The mice produced off-
spring with cleft palates. In the next
experiment, the same agents were in-
troduced into the female mice—but
while the offsprings’ palates were
forming, the mice also received vita-
mins B6, B12, and C. This time, no
cleft palates. Had the vitamins coun-
tered the original agents? If so,
would it be practical to give these
vitamins to an expectant mother who
suffers illness at a stage of pregnan-
cy when the palate forms?
No preventive has come out of
this experiment, but it shows the
direction research is taking in try-
ing to learn what causes abnormali-
ties and how to reduce them.
This is important because we are
not sure how permanent corrective
surgery is. The >cleft-palate child,
probably will have no future trouble.
But what of the baby whose heart
did not develop properly?
we grope toward those
IM
N yr ean while, other scientists con-
IVI centrate on helping those al-
ready born with afflictions. Signifi-
cant successes, for example, have
been achieved with metabolic dis-
orders. A Swedish mother with two
healthy children loses her newborn,
and nobody knows why. But she re-
calls an uncommon odor to the baby’s
diapers, and from that slim clue
eventually evolves treatment for
phenylketonuria (PKU).
In PKU, the liver fails to produce
an enzyme which acts on phenylala-
nine. When unconverted, this life-
building amino acid gets into the
blood stream with poisonous effects.
That clue in Sweden led to the first
forward step, a “green diaper” test
which alerted doctors to the defect.
Next came the development of a diet
low in phenylalanine which saved the %
afflicted baby’s life but, because the
diaper test lost vital time, it was
sometimes administered too late to
prevent serious brain damage.
Obviously, the next step was to
find a quicker test One has recently
been developed. It uses a few drops
of blood from the baby’s heel to di-
agnose the disorder. Last summer,
theU.S. Children’s Bureau began a
screening of this test on 400,000 new-
borns, with expectations that it will
permit earlier treatment of PKU and
other metabolic disorders.
Among the metabolic disorders
(Continued on page 14)
Ag--
I Va "rynew SUPER-MOSTDRIZING
I IMM DERMASSAGE SKIN CREAM
15- a
11 i I
, ) 214
. —4
he.
_
“other factors,” initial research has
provided young women with a guide
for reducing the risk of bearing de-
formed children. Abnormalities de-
velop in the first three months of
pregnancy, with the first six weeks
most vital, so obviously a woman
should be under a doctor's care as
early in pregnancy as possible.
She will be advised to avoid such
anomaly risks as X rays of the pelvic
region, certain drugs, and high alti-
tudes. Some doctors may suggest *
immunization against influenza be-
cause we know that at least one virus
can adversely influence development
of the embryo and may lead to abor-
tion. In 1941; Dr. N. M. Gregg of
Australia first proved that German
measles, contracted during the first
three months of pregnancy, produced
heart malformations, cataracts, deaf-
ness, and other defects in the child.
Despite such evidence, doctors
could do little but warn expectant
mothers of the risk of infection. Per-
haps they will do more in the future.
Just last year American scientists
succeeded in isolating the elusive
virus that causes German measles.
Evidence indicates that 90 percent of
. those infected develop neutralizing
antibodies to the virus. There is a
-tremendous amount of work to be
done on this development, but some
hope is offered for a vaccine which
dermassagge
SKIN Lorom V’ .M."
» 1
t69
■ e f
sgg ,
w 7} ;
ha ' ■
A Rjg-
pains in joints Md muscles make ■
you fed miserable and tired, try world- 1
famous DeWitt's Fills for their positive I
analgesic action Besides bringing fast I
pallative relief of pain. DeWitt's Pils I
_ W ' l
by sluggish kidneys DeWitt's Pills ■
can relieve backache miseries and •
help you lead a more active life ■
mm: THALIDOMIDE tragedies illus-
I trate how more than one factor is
probably involved in a deformed
birth. You recall headlines about de-
formed babies being born to many
mothers who took the drug, but what
we overlooked is that deformities
occurred only among 20 percent of
thalidomide mothers. Why did most
of them bear normal children? One
guess is that the drug alone did not
cause the deformity. It was a com-
would immunize child-bearing women
against German measles.
Are there other anomaly-producing
viruses? Last year Australian doctors
found indications that mongolism,
which results from the presence of
an extra chromosome, may be caused
by a virus. For 16 years they kept
records of mongoloid births,. and the
pattern typified those associated with
viral epidemics. Mongoloid births
clustered more in urban areas where
there is more personal contact, and
they increased in number at certain
times—one Melbourne suburb aver-
aged one or two mongoloids a year,
then in 1944 seven were born in seven
months, four in the same week and
living within a quarter-mile area.
Fifteen years later, five mongoloids
were born in the same suburb within
a half-block area. This is no more
than a beginning, of course, but if
borne out by other studies, we could
hope to isolate the harmful virus
someday, then try to develop an "an-
timongoloid vaccine.”
85*5».*
Za ' e —
fS 222
2"-
.,245,2,2 ' "
h*k.m*Re, *
83.
fit p..x ■■ - . -
--- c .3
By ORLANDO J. MILLER, M. D.
Assistont Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Lecturer in Genetics,
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center New York
• * pke
-c, as
sg2n 4
A g 1,2.-
91
, —2
c_ - M2
few.
EL
B&!
‘ 9
Family Weekiy. March 1*. 1963
I
1,
aj
f *‛
ri 2
}
♦ 3 j!-
1 » ,
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 186, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 10, 1963, newspaper, March 10, 1963; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1531926/m1/32/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.