Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 9, 1957

¶A child patient at Little Rock's University of Arkansas hospital made medical history by giving natural birth, two months prematurely, to a 2½lb. boy. Prognosis of the hospital's obstetrics-gynecology chief. Dr. Willis E. Brown: a reasonable chance of survival for the baby. The mother's age: nine years. Youngest birth on record anywhere: a boy born to a five-year-old in Peru, 1939.

¶To extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell...

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