The ten-year-old boy who shuffled into Los Angeles' Orthopaedic Hospital one morning last week, clutching his mother's hand, had a bad case of jitters. The unfamiliar setting made Jimmy shake all over. So did his mother's gentle "Come along" when the nurse summoned them. So did his attempts to talk. He was a victim of the athetoid type of cerebral palsy, marked by almost continual jerky movements that are worsened whenever the victim tries to execute the simplest task. (In the spastic type, equally common, any effort results in slow, jerky movements.)
Dr....
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