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P: Doctors and hospital authorities should print leaflets telling parents what they in turn should tell children who are to be admitted for operations, said the A.M.A. Journal. A simple, forthright explanation to the child--of the operation itself, of the anesthetic, and of what all those white-garbed people are up to--will help to save the youngster from panic.

P: Mrs. Heliodore Cyr, 42, wife of a New Brunswick farmer, gave birth, in Fort Kent, Me., to an 8-lb. girl, her 25th child (18 now living), and her first delivered in a hospital.

P: Blaming food allergies for assorted ills has gone too far, suggested Allergist Samuel M. Feinberg of Chicago. The allergy victim is as subject to other ailments as anybody else, and these may be neglected if he rashly concludes that all his troubles are allergic in origin.

P: "Unjustifiable surgery goes on in many parts of the country and we run into it every day," said Dr. Paul R. Hawley, executive director of the American College of Surgeons. "When surgery was dangerous and was mainly a lifesaving measure, there wasn't much chance of this. But now that surgery is so safe, there is too much. Some of these operations are performed because of bad judgment, and some for mercenary reasons."

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