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PAGE SIX :_A Schmidt Twins Are Termed Medical Mystery Screaming sirens pierced the quiet of a cold winter night three years ago, wak ing the Schmidt household and sending Joanne, older of the five- month - Old twins, into a screaming ses sion of her own. •But Carol Anne, “the little one,” slept through all the noise. “It was then that we really knew,” recalls Mrs. John L. Schmidt of Long Island City, N. Y.. “My husband and I had always suspected, but never really admitted to ourselves, that ‘the little one’ couldn’t hear.” The blonde, blue-eyed FOR QUICK RESULTS Try a Herald Classified | Why not get the best... Mm COiOR TV'S LARGEST PICTURE, £«Klr'l SLIMMED INTO BEAUTIFULLY mm COMPACT CABINETRY... ■Hf NEW 1968 COLOR TV ; GIANT 33* RECTANGULAR DIAC. 2M m- *■ pietart 1 -■ fl T{ The COLE • Y4525M M * J Charming Early American styled W IS compact console. In genuine |J Maple veneers and select hardwood solids. 5" x 3" Twin-cone speaker. New Zenith VHf end UHF Concentric Tuning Controls. 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'■ - ■ Schmidt twins were bom a minute apart on Colum bus Day, 1964, but the difference between them is much more than a mere 60 seconds. Their mother was strick en with German measles (rubella) early in preg nancy—so early that at the time she did not even know she was pregnant. The rubella virus caused Mrs. Schmidt only tem porary discomfort and ap parently left Joanne unaf fected. But for the other de veloping .twin, Carol Anne, the result was tragic. She has' suffered from near total, hearing loss since birth. Moreover, she has a heart defect and her gen % eral physical development has been slower than that of her sister. What happened to the Schmidt twins is rare, if not unique. “I have seen same cases where both twins were af fected,” the physician-in charge of the March of Dimes - financed Rubella Birth Defects Evaluation. Project at New York Uni versity Medical Center said in a recent interview, “but this is the first case I have seen in which one twin has been spared.” The physician is Dr. Louis Z. Cooper, assistant professor of pediatrics at THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1968. the university, who has examined the Schmidt twins _ and hundreds of other ’ congenital rubella victims as part of the March of Dimes project. The day a woman gives birth is, to say the least, filled with emotion and ex pectation. On that October day in 1964, the emotional stress on Eleanor Schmidt was particularly intense. “We had no idea of what to expect. The doctors told us what rubella could do if contracted early in pregnancy. After the girls were bom, we were just grateful it wasn’t more serious,” Mrs. Schmidt said. She recalled that at birth Joanne was two pounds heavier and two inches longer than Carol Anne. Now the older twin is 12 pounds heavier than her sister. “The little one,” who wears a hearing aid in each ear, has been enrolled for half her young life in an auditory training pro gram. She also attends speech therapy class and sees several specialists regularly. To help prepare Carol Anne for school, Mrs. Schmidt keeps a special album of photographs from newspapers and magazines. She has helped her daugh ter develop a vocabulary of 150 words from photos of. houses, cars, boats, etc. “Joanne has been a big help, too,” Mrs. Schmidt points out. “ ‘The little one’ follows her in every thing, eating, walking. Os ♦ ' Then why not change the figures? Pay off aU your present time-pay debts with one easy installment loan from First National. You may even find money left in the budget for that appliance, or car, or other big purchase you’ve been putting off. So come in today. We’ll both he glad | you did! first national bank 'WmH||||||||NHK? of eastern NORTH CAROLINA « Mare then twenty effkn from Boone to i t -I .... H HHH . . ■ :888b. v * xv^asSasSS "kdHggx, jj ~ *^BB ■p*'" These twins ere a medical mystery. Joanne Schmidt, right, was born healthy, but Carol Anne was born with physical defects caused by German measles (rubella!. With them is Dr. .Louis Z. Cooper at March of Dimes Rubella Birth Defects Center. course, she’s not as well Experimental vaccines to coordinated as Joanne, prevent Tuibella are now You can see that from Her being tested, and authori knees. They are forever ties have expressed hope scraped from falls.” that an effective vaccine Step-by-step the Schmidt will be available within the family overcomes e.a c h next few years. new difficulty. They are Better Be Safe not alone. The twins were born during one of the Betty I can’t decide most severe rubella epi- whether to go to a palmist demies in the history of __ „ ._. , . , T ~ , or a mind reader, this country. In New York City alone, there were an Catty Better make it estimated 200,000 cases in palmist you know 1964. you have a palm. HEALTH AND SAFETY WPS FROM THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Coincidence played a large part in establishing the . reputed effectiveness of traditional remedies in medical folklore, points out TODAYS HEALTH GUIDE the American Medical As sociation’s manual of health information for the Ameri can family. Warts, which come ap parently from nowhere and often disappear for no ap parent reason, gave unde served reputations to innu merable remedies which happened to be used just preceding the spontaneous disappearance of a wart. The self-limiting character of many diseases, such as the milder sore throats and colds, also caused simple herbs and other home methods to gain a curative reputation which they did not merit, the health book says. Here are the facts about some of the common mis conceptions regarding health— There is no medicine which can be taken by mouth to dissolve gall stones. -:- Premature baldness in men is not caused by wear ing hats; nobody knows what causes it. Cancer has not been shown to be contagious. -:- It is not important to lie on the right side when sleeping to keep from in terfering with heart ac tion; the heart actually is in the middle of the chest and not on the left side. CAP'N and DOC FRANK B THOMAS Christmas was a memory and everyone was still trying to stick to his New Year s resolution when Doc hove into view. Cap’n and his friends were warming the fire and chatting over the recent blast of artic air. Coffee aroma and to bacco smoke drifted hazily through the air. Well, blasted Cap’n, what gives on this meat inspec tion program we’ve gotten thrust our way? Seems cartoons and news stories indicate we weren’t get ting much quality in our meat. Well, Doc replied, maybe in a few cases we weren’t getting what we thought, but generally we get a good product at a fair price. It seems that in any business someone is going to try to get by with the least effort, least quality, or least weight. So, to im prove sanitation all along the processing channels and to insure the consumers of best buys for her dollar, we now have a mandatory meat inspection program. We can read the hand writing on the wall quite clearly now. Poultry and poultry products will prob ably be the next industry providing us with protein foods to come under the gim. Voluntary Inspection under the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture is now available. Next, this will be moved into a mandatory program sometime in the near future. With these indicators and what has already been said in Congress, it appears that fish and fishery products are certain to follow suit. Our shellfish sanitation program at state and fed eral levels has been oper ating well for many years. However, we see many fishery products totally ex empt from almost any standards of sanitation or quality. Thus, we better start putting our house in order and get ready for mere, not less, inspection and regulation. Honestly, it would be nice to do all this by edu cational methods rather than buy the regulatory route. Seems man really never learns as he should by example, or from some one else’s experience. He ends up having to be regu lated. Three sparks kindle in all hearts—pride, envy and avarice. —Dante.
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