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Paediatrische Radiologie: Stützgewebe-Zentralnervensystem-Syndrome, Vol. I, by Franz Schmid. Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag, 1972, 504 pp., $78.70
Authors: Neuhauser Edward B. D. 
Published: December 2021

Only the first volume of this projected two-volume textbook of pediatric radiology is available for review. Included in the first volume is a discussion of bones and soft tissues, the central nervous system, and 100 pages of syndromes in brief tabulated form.
This is a handsome book written in German with 451 excellent illustrations. Few of the 16 contributing authors are well known in this country and it would seem that few are full-time pediatric radiologists.
Vectorcardiography in Congenital Heart Disease: A Method for Estimating Severity, by R. Curtis Ellison, M.D., and Norma J. Restieaux, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.A.C.P., M.R.C.P. (London) with a forward by Alexander S. Nadas, M.D. Philadelphia/London/Toronto: W. B. Saunders Company, 1972, 209 pp., $13.50
Authors: Neill Catherine A. 
Published: December 2021

This beautifully produced book not only shows excellent examples of specific congenital lesions and discusses them in an erudite manner, but also refers to the literature in a comprehensive way. It, therefore, will become a necessary reference book for anyone working in the field of the noninvasive assessment of severity of congenital cardiac lesions.
As might be expected from the special interests of the Boston group, the chapter on aortic stenosis is outstanding and provides excellent examples and a good review of the problem.
A MODEL BILL FOR MINORS' CONSENT TO HEALTH SERVICES
Authors: Rigg C. Andrew , Bright George M. , McKusick Marjorie J. , Ris Hania , Werner Stanley C. , Wessel Morris A. , Hirsch Richard A. , Pilpel Harriet F. 
Published: December 2021

I. Declaration of policy and statement of intent:
As a general rule of policy, parents should participate in all health care decisions relating to their minor children whenever feasible. At the same time, no legal barrier should exist to prevent minors from receiving needed health care. This article responds to the needs of certain categories of minors to be able to receive health services on their own consent in order to protect their health and the health of others.
Letters to the Editor
Authors: Hazard Sprague W. 
Published: December 2021

This communication greatly exceeds the limit of 300 words we try to impose on correspondents. In view of the interest of the subject, and to encourage discussion in these columns by members of the A.A.P. Committee on Youth and others, that restriction has been lifted.
For the Committee on Youth, Dr. Hazard comments as follows:
One of the goals in developing "A Model Act Providing for Consent of Minors for Health Services" was to stimulate the health and legal communities into action regarding the unique and often very difficult situation in which the young person finds him or herself when they have a health problem.
Letters to the Editor
Authors: Klein Michael , Roghmann Klaus , Woodward Kenneth , Charney Evan 
Published: December 2021

Dr. Klein and his co-authors comment as follows:
Dr. Gordon T. Moore has raised extremely pertinent questions in relation to our article on "The Impact of the Rochester Neighborhood Health Center on Hospitalization of Children."
Regarding his first point, we do acknowledge that the possible selection of low risk patients by the Health Center was not explored in the present study. Other local studies1 do not support his notion, however, and the registration process of the Health Center if anything tends to recruit and pursue high risk patients.
Pediatric Otolaryngolocy, Vol. II, ed. 2 of the Respiratory Tract in Children, edited by Charles F. Ferguson, M.D., F.A.C.S., and Edwin L. Kendig, Jr., M.D., Sc.D. (Hon.). Philadelphia/London/Toronto: W. B. Saunders, 1972, pp. 819-1369, $25.00
Authors: Stool Sylvan 
Published: December 2021

This book is the second volume of a two-volume set, the first devoted to the lower respiratory tract and this to pediatric otolaryngology. The volume is designed to have a broad appeal rather than be a definitive text on pediatric otolaryngology.
Each section of the book, which is divided anatomically, begins with an appropriate and concise description of the embryology and anatomy of the region. Most of the sections have a description of the methods of examination which is of value to the pediatrician who may not be familiar with special methods and for the otolaryngologist who may not see many children.
SOME PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN FOLK REMEDIES TO EASE TEETHING PAINS
Authors: C. T. E. 
Published: December 2021

The following folk remedies to ease the child's pain during teething were once widely used by Pennsylvania German families:
"Rub the child's gums with rabbit brain before the child is six months old; rub the child's hard palate during dentition with your thumb; grease the child's gums with fat from the pan in which meat was fried. Rub the gums with the rattles of a rattlesnake; pass a small fish through the mouth of a child to ease pain; suspend a rabbit's tooth about the child's neck; pass the comb of a decapitated cock through the mouth of the child before the cock is fully dead."
Factors In Child Neglect– Working Indian Mothers
Authors: Browder J. Albert 
Published: December 2021

Oakland and Kane's1 failure to find a correlation between employment of Indian mothers and child neglect should help clarify misconceptions of professionals dealing with Navajo Indians. Undoubtedly, perpetuation of such misconceptions is closely related to Indian health problems subsequently defined by Mortimer2 and Kemberling.3 It should be appreciated that since Indian tribes vary widely in their life style, statements applying to Navajos are not necessarily uniformly applicable to all Indians.
Misconceptions such as "out-of-home employment leads to abuse and neglect" help explain why progress has been slow in dealing effectively with this major social problem.
Letters to the Editor
Authors: Froehlich Luz A. 
Published: December 2021

Dr. Froehlich comments as follows:
There are several reasons for the apparent higher mortality rate in our population compared to those cited.
1. As was indicated in the footnote of Table I, our mortality rate includes not only perinatal deaths but also infant deaths.
2. Our population consists of 46% blacks, 46% whites, and 8% Puerto Ricans and other races.1 The general United States population consists of about 10% to 11% blacks.
3. Except for one institution (University of Buffalo) our study population consists of clinic patients.1
We Mainline Dreams: The Odyssey House Story, by Judianne Densen-Gerber, J.D., M.D. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973, 421 pp., $9.95
Authors: Faigel Harris C. 
Published: December 2021

This is a highly personal, autobiographical book which has been written in the first person by a "ghost" and realistically describes some of the difficulties in starting a program for the rehabilitation of young drug abusers. Often absorbing, sometimes moving and dramatic, and sometimes overblown and repetitious, this book documents Densen-Gerber's own growth and maturation as a participant as well as her experience in founding Odyssey House.
Densen-Gerber and former residents of Odyssey House describe their life and work together in a series of autobiographical sketches interwoven through the book.
Behavior Disorders in Children, ed. 4, by Harry Bakwin, M.D., and Ruth Morris Bakwin, M.D. Philadelphia/London/ Toronto: W. B. Saunders, 1972, 714 pp., $17.50
Authors: Cohen Donald Jay , Berger Lawrence R. 
Published: December 2021

The authors of this book never state for whom their text is intended; as reviewers representing a range of involvement with child psychiatry and pediatrics, we can recommend it to no particular group. Among the book's very genuine assets are its breadth of scope, clinical orientation, extensive references, and eminently readable format. Unfortunately, the volume's inaccuracies, simplifications, and distortions make it an unreliable reference for pediatricians.
No theoretical framework of child development and its disturbances is presented.
Pediatric Cardiology, by Mary Allen Engle, Guest Editor (Cardiovascular Clinics Series, Vol. 4, No. 3). Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, 1972, 366 pp., $12.00
Authors: Steeg Carl N. 
Published: December 2021

This volume seeks to present the current "state of the art in pediatric cardiology." It is an immensely readable work which has a distinguished roster of contributors who have broadly covered both newer clinical and investigative aspects of heart disease in children, as well as reviewing ever current topics such as the cyanotic newborn, congestive failure, innocent murmurs, electrocardiography, and radiography of patients with congenital heart disease, to mention a few.
Other chapters deal with such subjects as neuropharmacologic studies of the perinatal myocardium, embryology and morphology of the normal and abnormal heart, pediatric aspects of atherosclerosis, surgical treatment of tetralogy of Fallot, and the pharmacology of cardio-active agents.
Routine Screening of Women for Gonorrhea (Is "Offer" of Tests Enough?)
Authors: Katz Selig H. 
Published: December 2021

In a letter published in the August 1973 issue, Dr. Hania W. Ris suggests routine screening of women for gonorrhea.
A recently enacted amendment to the Public Health Law of New York State requires all physicians, clinics or facilities providing gynecological, obstetrical, contraceptive, sterilization or termination-of-pregnancy services or treatment to offer to administer to every New York State resident coming for such services or treatment, appropriate tests for the detection of syphilis and gonorrhea.
Pediatric Orthopedics, Vol. I and II, by Mihran O. Tachdjian, M.S., M.D. Philadelphia/London/Toronto: W. B. Saunders Company, 1972, 766 pp. (Vol. I), 1001 pp. (Vol. II), $65.00
Authors: Ferguson Albert B. 
Published: December 2021

Pediatric Orthopedics is aimed primarily at the orthopedic surgeon with operative procedures shown in detail.
Mihran Tachdjian, the author, and W. B. Saunders, the publisher, have collaborated to produce a superbly illustrated and designed text. The illustrations, a combination of the contribution of the photographic and the medical illustrator, are great examples of the work of both fields. The two volumes are memorable achievements in the illustrative fields. The hand, orthotics, and prosthetics in children are omitted.
Applying An Old Concept to A New Method of Streptococcal Surveillance
Authors: Zimmerman Robert A. , Horn Kenneth A. , Meyer W. Terrence , Klesius Phillip H. 
Published: December 2021

Streptococcal surveillance programs in areas of high endemicity are difficult to maintain due to the high economic costs and excessive laboratory demands based on total number of cultures taken.
Through retrospective analysis of data accumulated from five different surveillance studies carried out by the Streptococcal Disease Section in Colorado, we have been able to devise a new approach to streptococcal surveillance programs.
By utilizing the concept of familial susceptibility and employing crude criteria to define susceptible and nonsusceptible families, we found that S families accounted for 53% to 96% of all group A acquisitions and demonstrated a fourfold to sixfold higher mean prevalence when compared to NS families. Guidelines for setting up a streptococcal surveillance program utilizing these principles are presented. This applied approach can reduce economic costs and laboratory work by 50% to 60% and still maintain effective surveillance of the high-risk segment of the population being studied.
Letter to the Editor
Authors: Dolan Thomas F. , Meyers Alan 
Published: December 2021

We agree that follow-up urine culture should be obtained after the diagnosis of a urinary tract infection is made. The frequency with which such cultures are obtained is, however, debatable. Our questionnaire did not include this aspect of management.
Since 59% of family practitioners and 45% of pediatricians diagnosed urinary tract infections without benefit of culture on a routine basis, it would seem likely that follow-up urine cultures are not performed with regularity.
We would join with Dr. Browning in urging careful follow-up and evaluation for children with documented urinary tract infections.
Hemophilus Influenzae, edited by Sarah H. W. Sell, editor, and David T Karzon, associate editor. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1973, 325 pp., $15.00
Authors: Lepow Martha L. 
Published: December 2021

This 300-page volume consists of the proceedings of a conference on the "Antigen-Antibody Systems, Epidemiology and Immunoprophylaxis" of Hemophilus influenzae held on April 24-25, 1972, at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, sponsored by Vanderbilt University and the Department of Pediatrics of the School of Medicine.
Most of the 40 participants, all from the United States, are actively engaged in research in the biology, immunology or epidemiology of this complex group of microorganisms, with special emphasis on H. influenzae type b.
Dr. Turtle's Babies, by William John Turtle, M.D., with the assistance of Lydia Pope Turtle. Philadelphia/London/Toronto: W. B. Saunders Co., 1973, 318 pp., $4.95
Authors: Pittelli Alexandra W. 
Published: December 2021

Dr. Turtle was a retired pediatrician when he wrote this book; he wrote it from the vantage point of years of experience in dealing with young patients and their concerned mothers, polished by several years' experience in leading prenatal discussion groups. This is a gentle book written for parents to be—perhaps too gentle and repetitive for some of today's more sophisticated young mothers.
"Preventive medicine" in child rearing is the purpose of the book in introducing to prospective parents some of the concerns, self-questioning and even panic which they will soon fall heir to, so that in the calm before the storm they may be able to set reasonable goals and a philosophy of child rearing, and to consider objectively a baby's needs in nutrition, love and handling, discipline and accident prevention.
What Shall We Tell the Kids?, by Bennett Olshaker, M.D. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1973, 286 pp., $1.50
Authors: Schell Norman B. 
Published: December 2021

"What kids want to hear from their parents" is the first statement on the cover of this new paperback. It might more appropriately read, "What kids should hear from their parents."
This is a well-written pocket manual in Spockian style. The language may appeal to the junior high school-educated parent readers, but, by the same token, breeziness may appear as an oversimplistic approach to child rearing to the senior high school or college-educated parent readers.
Golden's Diagnostic Radiology, Section 15, Laurence L. Robbins, M.D., editor: Pediatric Radiology, ed. 2, by Lawrence A. Davis, M.D., and Loretta T. Shearer, M.D. Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1973, 293 pp., $27.50
Authors: Wilkinson Robert H. 
Published: December 2021

This book is an extremely ambitious undertaking covering a wide range of abnormalities in a relatively short space. The authors start and finish with some practical guidelines for the radiographic examination of the pediatric patient based on many years of experience in a good pediatric hospital.
The organization of the diseases presented is logical with many references supplied. Some of the entities are discussed in detail while others, properly, are only mentioned with appropriate references suggested. The scope of the diseases presented is very wide; perhaps deletion of some of the rare conditions would have provided space for more discussion of common problems.
INTRODUCTION: The Treatment of Paroxysmal Disorders
Authors: Menkes John H. 
Published: December 2021

As the accompanying series of papers indicates, the treatment of paroxysmal disorders in childhood is still an art, laid down on a thin groundwork of scientific information.
While there is unanimous agreement that all patients with recurrent seizures should be treated as soon as the diagnosis is established, there is considerable controversy regarding the optimum method of dealing with certain patients.
1. Febrile convulsions. There is considerable controversy as to whether a child who has experienced his first febrile convulsion should receive continuous prophylactic anticonvulsant therapy. Controlled prospective studies have indicated that the mcidence of recurrent febrile convulsions is not significantly less in patients who have been placed on daily doses of phenobarbital or diphenylhydantoin than those on intermittent anticonvulsants administered only at the time of a febrile episode, or on no therapy at all. It is possible that the failure of phenobarbital prophylaxis is due to inadequate blood levels, and serum barbiturate levels of 1.5 mg/100 ml or higher may be required to prevent further febrile convulsions.
2. The child with an isolated major motor convulsion. I believe that treatment of this type of patient is optional, and to a large measure dependent on social factors. While phenobarbital, the drug of choice in this instance, has few side effects, it must be stressed that sudden withdrawal of the drug by the parents, unconvinced of its necessity, may precipitate status epilepticus.
3. Breath-holding spells. Most authorities agree that antiepileptic drugs are of no value in preventing recurrence of attacks.
Unusual Presentations of Epilepsies
Authors: Walsh Gregory O. 
Published: December 2021

Seizures are either focal (partial) or generalized in onset (Table I).1 The manifestation of the seizure is related to the area of the brain involved in the initial electrical seizure discharge. If the initial seizure discharge is related to the motor strip then one might see a Jacksonian type of seizure with first clonic movements of the thumb and fingers, then a march up the hand, arm, face and leg on the contralateral side of the body. If the initial seizure discharge is related to the temporal lobe then one might see impairment of consciousness and automatic movements (automatisms). The "aura" is actually the start of the electrical seizure discharge which is confined to one area of brain. The type of "aura" that a patient has is related to the area of brain involved in the seizure discharge. For example, the olfactory aura of an unusual smell may be related to a mesial temporal lobe or mesial frontal lobe discharge. The aura of an unusual taste is related to a discharge in the insular cortex. If the electrical seizure discharge spreads out to involve other areas of brain or the whole brain then the patient has a secondarily generalized major motor seizure. The important point is to recognize that the seizure was a partial onset seizure becoming secondarily generalized and therefore due to a focal etiology rather than a primary generalized seizure disorder, which affects a particular area of brain which is may be precipitated in response to some stimuli which effects a particular area of brain which is extraordinarily sensitive because of an epileptic lesion in that area.
See table in the PDF file
Rates and Calcium Concentrations of Sweat in Relation to Cystic Fibrosis
Authors: Gibson Lewis E. 
Published: December 2021

The authors of the recent article which failed to show a significant difference between sweat calcium concentrations of CF patients and control subjects, suggest that the findings refute our hyperpermeability hypothesis. They found sweat Ca of 0.32 to 1.67 mEq/liter in 26 control subjects and 0.42 to 2.03 mEq/liter in 16 CF patients. With these tremendous ranges many more subjects would be required to prove or disprove a difference.
A difference undetectable in a moderate number of subjects is probably not of pathophysiologic significance if the Ca really varies unpredictably.
A Silent Tragedy: Child Abuse in the Community, by Peter and Judith DeCourcy. New York: Alfred Publishing Company, Inc., 1973, 231 pp., $6.95
Authors: Fontana Vincent J. 
Published: December 2021

Peter and Judith DeCourcy have written a splendid book on child abuse. It certainly should be read by every professional and nonprofessional, and every citizen with a conscience.
It is difficult to accept the fact that in our society today, inhuman cruelty to children appears to be rapidly increasing and that the perpetrators of these crimes are for the most part not strangers, but parents themselves. In this book, the DeCourcy's accurately describe cases of child abuse and the problems encountered when dealing with such cases.
Eschatological Thoughts of the Just 16-year-old Emily Dickinson
Authors: C. T. E. 
Published: December 2021

Other poets of comparable stature have made the theme of death central in much of their writing. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) did so in hers to an unusual degree. In one way or another she has drawn it into the texture of some five or six hundred poems.
One persistent thought that binds together her many poems is that death snaps the line of commuication with those she has known and loved, and creates the uncertainty in the minds of all mortals whether that communication can ever be re-established.1
The letter below, written to a friend when Emily was just a month past her sixteenth birthday is both a good example of her literary style and her views about death.
The Ductus Arteriosus, by Donald E. Cassels, M.D. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1973, 345 pp., $17.75
Authors: Liebman Jerome 
Published: December 2021

Dr. Cassels should be congratulated on attempting a monograph on this subject. This reviewer's first reaction before opening the cover of the attractively packaged book was to say—why? But on reading the table of contents and getting into such content, the "why" was answered—positively.
There are 25 chapters, varying from history, embryology, histology, anatomy, etc. to hemodynamics, theories of patency, pulmonary hypertension, and the effects of patency of the ductus arteriosus on growth. Each chapter is well illustrated, with specific anatomical drawings, usually of excellent quality.
Childhood in the Early Colonial Period
Authors: Bloch Harry 
Published: December 2021

A great deal has been written about the life, struggles, and accomplishments of pioneer men and women who crossed the ocean to build a new world in the wilderness; but infant and child life during early colonial days is largely hidden in obscurity. Little has been recorded.1
It is known that few children under the age of 7 survived in the crowded immigrant ships: falling into the sea, accidents, hunger, thirst, and sickness took its sad toll. Nevertheless, there were many young2-5: a third of the founders of Plymouth were children; Puritan youth were evident in the great migration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony; several cargoes of poor children and orphans from Dutch almshouses were "bound out" to the burghers of New Netherlands; children were frequently dispatched from England as indentured servants and apprentices; the London Company sent 100 children to Virginia in 1619, and 1,500, kidnapped from Ireland and England, in 1627; African slave children were shipped to the colonies after 1620; and the colonial mother6 bore many children, buried many, and often followed them to the grave at an early age. Fecundity,5 characteristic of early colonists, served to people a continent (the population was 2.5 million in 1776), and provided needed child labor. Over 50% of Plymouth colony consisted of children.7
Colonial children were viewed as miniature adults; and boys and girls were dressed alike until the age of 7.1,7,8 The infant1,7 wore a long linen smock; was covered with a woolen blanket; and a wooden or wicker cradle, hooded to protect from cold draughts, much like those in which Indian babies slept, was its bed.