Medicine: Capsules, Jul. 30, 1951

¶In Picayune, Miss., a 7 Ib. 2 oz. boy was Dorn to an unmarried mother, 10; had a twice-married grandmother, 23.

¶In U.S. medical laboratories, 1,342 workers have caught the diseases which hey were investigating; 39 died.

¶New Haven schoolchildren, “protected” against germs by ultraviolet lamps, got sick as often as “unprotected” kids.

¶Fed up with conflicting theories on infant colic, two Manhattan pediatricians ried grandma’s remedy on 28 babies: a rubber pacifier. It pacified all but three.

¶Pathologist Robert P. Morhardt told the American Osteopathic Association: doctors should not try to prolong the life of a patient with an incurable ailment.

¶Chicago gynecologist found a new use for the pain-killing drug Edrisal: to kill the despondency which besets many mothers after childbirth.

¶A Manhattan doctor asked the A.M.A. Journal: “Is there any harm in wetting the hair daily…? I have done it for years and have all my hair…” Said the Journal: go right ahead.