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P: Playing wind instruments can give valuable muscle control to youngsters with mouth or teeth deformities, reports Dr. Howard E. Kessler of Western Reserve University School of Dentistry in Dental Surgery. Such therapy gives the child frequent muscle-control practice, helps correct his deformity. Sample musical prescriptions: a child with a protruded jaw should play the saxophone or clarinet, a child with a retruded jaw the trumpet, cornet, bugle or trombone.

P:Three -and - a -half -month -old Daniel Patrick Benson, believed to be the first child ever born with polio in the U.S., was reported showing improvement as he posed for his first photograph with his mother, Mrs. Patricia Benson, a 26-year-old Madison, Wis. graduate nurse who was stricken with polio when she was pregnant. The youngster's birth was normal, but he was born with paralysis of both legs and the left arm. This fact upset the generally accepted theory that a child does not contract polio in the womb.

P:Diabetes among children is increasing, warns University of Rochester Pediatrician-Professor Gilbert B. Forbes in GP magazine of the American Academy of General Practice. His observations about young diabetes victims: 1) underweight, not obesity, plays a major role in diabetes among the young; 2) eating too many sweets does not lead to diabetes; 3) almost all juvenile diabetics need insulin, and it is best to begin treatment in a hospital; 4) to avoid making a child bitter, some control should be sacrificed, e.g., diet breaks on birthdays.

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