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Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: I haven't worn a bra in several months and dread ever having to wear one again. But a pretty wise old guy told me my breasts are going to be at my waist by the age of 30. Is he putting me on? Or is there really something to what he said? 1ATIMmSW OLIMONa.SPfa n2 WA A REV. Of T" MMC Pras. T TAE MY THING IINPI, A LV-ON ? HW-- HAT T0S THEM AT THAIGT IME. T/ ETiNGTOrET-/M TIY- THATSEODU THOSEN TH90ENT E RIH 'I WTMACUT WAY\. ?Wi6iES0#4 .ID Fl by Eu ANSWEk: My secretary suggests a controlled experiment in which girls would wear bras with one cup. Only then will we know whether bras have any effect at all on breasts. I suspect, though, that they- may prevent some stretching. of tissues in women with heavy breasts. Dcar Dr. Schoenfeld: ~? b46 N mMin; WEKE 6SETTIN6 019011E1Mf Itt St By WUSEM AlO ,. EMSNliTRAT FFER S,100 ARLY. TIEN 91ESPm5VE TIE TYPE OF P %ATONAL RESPONE PROVIDES a rE WA "ROEVERYBOW T RAP T1 MITH THE GVERHMENT ANYTIME 0 IfT OFFERS A CARD PACK AND DILECTORY. . THEY A AET OF WITH INTERLEAVED CARBONS. WRITE ONTE V STOP CAR A GET THREE l COPIES. THE THIRD C0FY IS PREADDRESSED TO NAIO RESPONSE. AJKT SEND TIlE DES 1N GOVERNMENT C A E sEwiVK USE54u ree CARS MhRESSIONAL COMMITTEES WITh I NATN ML. RESPONSE CAR3BN CAS . CKS W HNfE A WM TOPEN. g - SPONE SWCE D - -HAEAWm g - 60GWUIlENT YOUR NEW Nd -RESPONSE DIR 4'5 CAR1SON a PACKS OR S ET O cos. pmn Schofld, M.D. Here's a question which has my .friends and I going around and around: Would you please tell me if it would be possible for a woman to begin nursing an infant (not her own) in an emergency situation (snowbound, desert island, etc.) if the child's life depended upon it? Stated another way, could the L L t . LL zL S L L LL 4- LL LL . LL L J, t& 4~ POLIfICIANS ARE 7M/I - 00 14W TO NOTICE ANP rTENP TO THE PR03LE kCIN6 0UA NAT0. THFRE ARE SMANY MRSstIM MON5RATING ESSUIK WHICH HAVE (aWAKTI C UT I WANT / NATlOHR REM90S 00 MY A EMME VINiING - FREELY-80TH ALO AND AP FRMEL Y I " THE 4s N INAT DO o EDo VITH THEM? WHAT HAPPENS THEN? so TNAn NOW WE 00OOUR TH 3M CWWST T SEND IN T ET TNE ESPONSE IRECTORY' D ARB0N CAJRbI, ACKS. RDER E N4ATIONAL RESPONSE,INC. ~TOA. P.o. BoX 337-Mc LEAN - ECTORY COMCLT ty....- ..s. sucking of a starving baby, plus an extreme desire on the part of the woman, be sufficient to start the milk coming? Or must the process be started by an actual birth of 'a baby'? ANSWER: Apparently milk production can sometimes be initiated even if the woman is neither pregnant nor the mother of a new baby. Once my laboratory assistant found an old but unused breast pump in a Salvation Army store on one of her weekly junk expedition. After using the pump a couple of days a few drops of milky substance appeared. I'd never seen her so happy or excited before. Dear Dr. Schoenfeld; I was taken aback by your seemingly approving comments on the use of drugs to facilitate studying in "problem" school eU 6R NMMM AL SYSTEM IS7ALL gs UST NEEW To BECOME ME RESPOSVE. E CARBIM CARD PMC1 TO DO IS TAINCa NE AND 7WV06ER. w74E -t 4L L L f ~~~I L . 4 tional Reiponse, Inc. M. CARD To WHNEVER YOU WISH. THE NATIA KISMIM THE NrAME.5 AND AbDRESS THE CARDS 0 ARE CKLATED BY JffiIIfE A* USI A 6 ;iLMAVA YEs. TnIs EAY ATJETIlm TO PIBBLEMS.I I7 PUTs MEf|Mr IN THE tWIf FIaWS. R MORM MT H A WECK OR ) MDN7$.MP CASN. IRBINIA-22101 children. Discussions of this type of program have appeared with some frequency in SCIENCE and Hentoff's column in the VILLAGE VOICE. It seems that this drugging of children may be disasterously close to good old cliche ridden 1984. ' The positive a alternative is to make the learning environment more responsive to the child rather than vice-versa. S.M. ANSWER: Amphetamines and amphetamine-like drugs such as methylphenidate hydrochlortde (Ritalin) have been found useful in treating "hyperactive children." 'Ibis is relatively rare behavioral disorder though to result from minor brain damage. When ad ministered under careful medical supervision, amphetaniine-type drugs enable these children -to focus their energies. ' Undoubtably these same drugs are often misused to control normally active children bored by stultifying school routines which don't allow for individual dif ferences. Dear Dr. Schoenfeld: Recently the A.M.A.'s president elect stated he knew of a study which showed pot smoking causes impotence and birth defects. I doubt the validity of this report from my personal experiences. In fact I find balling better when I'm stoned. Anyway, I'd like your opinion. ANSWER: No drug should be taken during pregnancy unless advised by a physician, but if marijuana caused birth defects we would be experiencing an epidemic of deformed children' - the thalidomide disaster of a few years aso would seem small by comparison. Why doesn't the A.M.A.'s president-elect reveal thz study now instead of waiting till June? If he were right he'd save many babies. As for marijuana causing im potence I refer him and you to an Ace paperback book called THE SEXUAL POWER OF MARIJUANA by Barbara Lewis. When I spoke with my brother the psychiatrist About the afleged link between marijuana, birth defects and impotency, he said, *They really know how to hit where it hurts." The A.M.A. seems determined to play out its role as dinosaur. Maybe that's why most physicians in this country choose not to belong. Dr. Schoenfeld welcomes your letters. Write to him at 2010 7th St., Berkeley, Calif. 94710. DEAR DR. 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