Show Need No Lights for Emotions Poses Prove m Them Natural Born Born J t rt r PS 4 I 4 4 c c I V P r t. t ir i i i i V n 1 J 4 S' S v E J t L tI r 0 I I J Th story of f t development t and training of the Dionne Dionn quint pl ss it f fold in jf fascinating i six part rt series by Dr Allan Ann R R. R Dafoe Dafo the tha famed faed babies babies' This is the fifth of f the series FOE TELLS PLANS kr I Z TO TO PROTECT BABIES c i t fi FROM DREAD DISEASES DISEASE V S 1 j jk 4 IK k By ALLAN R. R DAFO j OBE MD 1 V Copyright 93 for The Tel grath r t Some time this year the Dionne quintuplets will be vaccinated against smallpox I I. I would be no noles less Jess than criminal if I did not provide provideS S t this tiIs iS protection against a disease e whose ravages I have hav seen seen only too often The deaths and the scarred f faces ces left by s 's smallpox are too terrible to contemplate when you look at the peacefully sleeping sleeping sleep sleep- ing bab babies es here in their little beds In th the earlier days of my 29 years years' practice smallpox was m much S more more frequent than it is now v. Many p people ople today do not no realize th the horror of this disease Many a time I have had to enter houses to to treat smallpox patients when I could scarcely cely stand the repulsive I. I cd odor r that acc accompanies m the malady or or recognize the features of f the victims swollen with the ravages of the disease 1 I used to take the priest along with m me to administer the last rites so often was it t. t necessary during tan outbreak 1 vaccinate myself every time smallpox appears at al all I I. have doneit some 10 10 or 12 times altogether I 1 1 do it just as an example to the other people though it no longer takes akes' akes on me My son was was vaccinated by his grandfather al also so a physician who practiced for 50 ye years rs' rs iIi in the northlands Sure of His Ground I I. I cite these things merely to I Indicate t that my ray own reliance on vaccination against smallpox x is not I I based on th theory or but on the practical practical practical experience of 29 years ears of f i administering It lt So SP I believe it would be e criminal to deny eny t this is pr pr protection tio to the Dion Dionne e babies bables I 11 I have never In all those years known of a use case where it was harmful i The situation is similar to 4 the protection recently given n the children agaInst t di diphtheria l erI Only recently r ka child died d ed at at Corbeil Cor- Cor r r. bell beil of diphtheria Without the ther immunity re recently given I would be far less lesse e easy lY In my mind than I am Even with all th the precautions we take at the hospital against infection we could not be certain that the disease would not penetrate our defenses You ma may be sure I breathed easier when the diphtheria had bad been administered to all five babies and its effectiveness made certain ln Some Incidents from my early practice I x have bave never forgotten A young child had called so-called black diphtheria and I I. was wa called When I x entered the door of the home hometh the th child w was s frantically running from father to mother and back again gasping gasping- for h help lp which h neither of gI give glye I repeat that a 8 man h has een this sort of thing for 30 ye years rs T would be criminal if h he did n not t Insist on every every known protection Other victims of course died su suddenly in their beds from paralysis of the heart t No o Disfigurement Now J Und Under r modern methods of vaccination vac vac- ci atlon no mark is left or Dr practically none In the old days I girls used to insist on a 8 v vaccination vaccina tion where it wouldn't show Then when the the days days' of short bathing cam came along Iong this became something of a problem Now it has ceas ceased d. d to as I have said the modern method leaves little or no o mark marie Each of the children recently had bad hada bada a light head Im I'm not complaining on that score An odd cold now and then develops certain Immunities We know for tor instance that Eskimos brought south for the S first ift tune time suffer Buffer c continually from front s colds cOdI d. d That 1 is bec because us they have never been given a chance to dev develop lop the immunities which in our must de- de p people opte ur country v l p. p The same thing has been bee noted in n northern Indians Now th that t the quintuplets have had bad several everal of ot these light colds S Wi without out B suffering ring any any very bad badr r results ts 1 I am less lesi worried about a. a I theIr heir condition a as hothouse babies than I was v s before That is the way I referred to them hem in the days before the they had had md any such disease at all and th therefore before they had developed developed devel devel- any immunity to them Better Never to Be HI Ill However I dont don't carry this position too far The belief elief of or orm m many ny fashioned old parents parent that the sooner their children have havo scarlet carlet fever ever whooping cough and measles the sooner it is over with wont won't hold water Modern medical practice believes that Hat it Is just as s well never n ver to have t hese diseases if they can be avoided and that if they cannot be avoid avoided d the he later they come the better This is because a 8 serious attack of any of those childhood diseases can cari and often does leave grave weakness of the heart e eyes es ears or kidneys Sometimes these after aftereffects aftereffects effects are permanent and leave leavea a 8 child handicapped all aIr its life So while I dont don't object to an odd cold now and then pr provided vided th that t tits lt its t's ts not heavy enough to 10 to drag crag the child down I 1 dont don't accept the theory that hat the childhood diseases are arc better better etter gotten over over with The Dionne babies wont won't catch them at atall atall all if we can help It If I beli believed ved there was the danger in vaccinating these children you ou may be sure I l' wouldn't risk It It t would be very foolish to jeopardize jeopardize jeopardize dize all that has been won anything in the least experimental But 11 t as regards this ye years year's rs r's vaccInation vaccina- vaccina ion tion against smallpox this is not the case Wo We will all aU feel c easier sier when the children 1 have ave this additional add addi- ional protection NEXT Some of tho the things learned earned In the care of the quintuplets quintuplets quintuplets quin quin- during tho the first 22 months of their lives Evert Eyer if th the Misses s s' s Dionne had not already crashed the movies movies moves you could could be bo certain ertain that eventually ally they would have starred behind the trie Klieg or they're re just natural born borri actresses as thes these scenes scenes' reveal A Broadway co could l hardly hardy emote e ote surprise e and amusement as expertly as do Cecile and Yvonne while Marie Emilie EmiRe and Annette portray portray por por- tray fray respectively shyness thoughtfulness and glee in a manner an an n experienced cinema ema star might envy |