Bingham Bulletin | 1947-08-01 | Page 3 | Baby Stricken, Then Twin has Sympathy' Illness

Baby Stricken, Then Twin Has 'Sympathy' Illness BOSTON. An unusual occurrence in the field of medicine resulted in a pair of 18-month-old identical twins being taken to Beth Israel hospital at Boston in comatose conditionsone con-ditionsone of which was peal and j the other "sympathetic." Little David Renda of Revere lapsed into a coma while suffering from a rare disease blood dyscra-gia dyscra-gia or lack of coagulation proper-ties. proper-ties. His identical twin, Daniel, otherwise oth-erwise in good health, lapsed into ! a coma at the same time. The infants' physician. Dr. Milton ! Levine, explained that while only j David actually was ill, Daniel went Into the coma from what is known as a "sympathy reaction by an identical twin." After several hours at the hospital. hos-pital. Daniel regained consciousness and was taken home, but his stricken strick-en twin was kept at the hospital. The twins are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Mario Renda.