Medicine: A, B, C, D.

Into St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic, N. J. one night last week hurried Mrs. Emil Kasper, 36, in labor five weeks before her time. Dr. Frank Frederic Jani, who had told the woman she would probably have twins, put her under an anesthetic, worked over her for two and a half hours. When, upon waking. Mrs. Kasper was informed she had given birth to three boys and a girl, each weighing about three pounds, she burst into tears. Dr. Jani popped two of the quadruplets into incubators, sent out for two more, ordered that the infants be fed glucose water and...

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