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P:After a study of 789 epileptic and non-epileptic children, two Baltimore neurologists, Abraham Lilienfeld and Benjamin Pasamanick, found that most cases of epilepsy appear to stem primarily from brain damage incurred before, during or just after birth. The doctors' conclusion: rather than being victims of inherited disease, epileptics may be "reproductive casualties" (like stillborn infants and cerebral palsy victims) whose ailments could be forestalled partly through better care before and during birth. P: Dr. Milford Thewlis of the American Geriatrics Society warned his colleagues that treating the aged as if they were middle-aged often results in dangerous "overtreatment." Samples: too-vigorous examinations, overdoses of drugs, too-hasty resort to surgery. Said Thewlis: "As a matter of fact, many [elderly] people seem to get along [on] skillful neglect." P:One in nine "moderate" drinkers is certain to become an alcoholic, declared the University of Illinois' famed and controversial physiologist, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy (TIME, April 9, 1951 et seq.). Sure signs of impending alcoholism: 1) sneaking extra drinks at a party by hanging around the punchbowl, 2) drinking with breakfast, 3) drinking alone, 4) getting angry when deprived of drink, 5) feeling a strong need for drink at certain hours, 6) drinking to ease tension, 7) steadily increasing daily liquor consumption. Dr. Ivy's remedy for those who want to drink without harmful aftereffects: sip 3 oz. of beer, taking an hour to do it.

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