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P: Progress is being made in the treatment of myasthenia gravis, a baffling disease incapacitating about 100,000 Americans.

in which nerve impulses are interrupted before they get to the muscles, leaving the patient pitifully weak and fatigued. Manhattan's Dr. Kermit E. Osserman reported that experiments with a new drug, pyrido-stigmin, produced partial rehabilitation of nearly half of 45 "moderate and severe cases," proved "definitely less toxic" than other drugs (e.g., neostigmine).

P: In Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, a 5-lb.

12-oz. son was born to a ten-year-old girl.

Felicia Delgado Gomez, by Caesarean section. Although precocious, Felicia was not the youngest child-mother in the medical records: 15 years ago a Peruvian girl, believed to be no older than five, bore a 6-lb. boy. Before she left the hospital hale and hearty at week's end, Felicia posed in bed with her baby and prized doll. P: A plan to make color films of patients under psychoanalysis was broached by Dr. David Shakow of the National Institute of Mental Health. Purpose: to show the films to groups of other analysts, enabling them to study each other's cases without having to rely on the sometimes faulty memory of reporting analysts. P: Dr. Sidney Olansky, VD laboratory director for the U.S. Public Health Service, reported "the possibility that a vaccine might be developed to immunize against syphilis." Working with 60 volunteers from New York's Sing Sing prison, a research team was studying reinfection of people who had had syphilis. In some cases they found that injections of killed spirochetes produced a resistance to reinfection. P: A simple instrument for removing ingrown toenails has been developed by

Manhattan's Podiatrist Marvin D. Steinberg. The instrument, shaped like a safety-razor handle with a sharp bore at the tip, cuts out the offending portion of toenail in 30 seconds.

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