Medicine: Pin-Head Stretched

A medical question that arose in Washington last week was whether to let a pinheaded (microcephalic) little boy grow up to be an idiot or to take a chance of making him normal by the drastic operation of splitting and stretching his skull. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart Jr. found that Alden Vorrath's mind & brain were normal for his two-and-a-half years. However, occasional convulsions seemed to indicate that the skull had hardened abnormally and was cramping the child's growing brain.

Doctors have not been able to prevent or cure microcephaly. A few bold...

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