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only. and then only through
his column.
omy of animals as they unfold be-
fore they are born. In a recent
book, yourselves Unborn" yale
University Press), he presents in
a series of lectures for laymeh
some Of the problems Of his sci
ence.
Women Worry
I don't know why such a work
was never done before. When l
think of the thousands Of women
now sitting IN rocking chairs Won
dering what under the shining
stars is going on inside them and
all they get is to be told not to
worry, TO hemstitch 200 diapers,
drink plenty of milk and think
beautiful thoughts, | cannot see
why some enterprising author did
not long ago think Of such a pres
entation as DR.. Corners.
Prenatal Growth
Each of US begins as a single cell
which weighs about fifteen ten
millionths of a gram. At birth, IL
we are seven-pound babies, we
weigh $3.50 gram. But what a set
Of multiplications and windings
and turnings occur before that
blessed event.
On the whole it turns out sur
prisingly. not to say astonishingly,
well. Considering everything that
could go wrong, the number Of
mishaps is in the very low deci-
NAL figures. And certainly DR..
Corner would agree that taking
thought does not influence the
event, and knowledge about it
does not make a great deal of diff
ference in the outcome. But neither
does knowledge hurt. This book
should be Of immense interest both
to the expectant mother, and, let US
include that neglected and shad-
owy figure, the eXpectant father.
Most OF what We know on the
subject has been learned from the
study of the lower animals. but
SUCH information as we have re-
ceived from time to time about
man indicates that there is no real
difference in the fundamental
processes.
The youngest human o1bryo
ever studied was obtainC 1y a
Boston surgeon, DR.. John Rock,
in 1912. 1t was believed to be
about ~ days old. The difficulties
in the way of getting such early
ones are obvious. The hen is the
embryologists real pal. He can get
an egg from under her before she
has emitted her first cackle and
watch the embryo grow cell by cell,
the heart appears as pinpoint Of
alternate white and red-and a
lovely sight it is too--until, finally,
a Uniformed chick covered with
down and legs and everything
energies.
Mother and Child
One Of the vivid passages Of Dr.
Corners book is his description Of
the placenta and the interchange
of chemical and nutritional ele-
ments between mother and devel-
oping child. The placenta is part
of the child attached to the moth
er's uterus into which it sends
little fingers called Will consisting
Of an ingoing and outgoing blood
vessel.
DR.. Corner illustrates the prop
critics of these Will by taking a
sausage casing and filling it with
some indelible ink and then hang
ing it in beaker Of water. None
Of the ink ever left the sausage
casing, but if he added salt solr-
ton, it Immediately got out into
the surrounding water. The Will
are selective in what they let pass
in the same way.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
S. P. BIN a recent article
you said Thomas Addison de-
scribed pernicious anemia. / have
Addison's disease. Is it the same
thing, and would liver extract
help?
swer:-Thomas Addison de-
scribed both diseases. Liver ex-
tract does not help Addison's dis
ease, but plenty Of salt does.