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• By age 24, Virginia had graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed her residency as a surgeon by 28. Instead of practicing surgery, she turned to anesthesiology and became professor of the subject at Columbia. She also did clinical and research work at the same time at the Sloane Hospital for Women. • In 1953, Virginia invented the Apgar score as a method of evaluating a newborn’s health within minutes after birth. The test developed out of her great concern about the effects of anesthesia on babies. • The Apgar test is based on five criteria using a scale from zero to two. Virginia used the acronym APGAR for the scoring device to remind health care workers of each item: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration. The test is first conducted at one minute, and again at five minutes. • Appearance is based on skin color, Pulse on pulse rate of 100 beats per minute, Grimace on whether a baby cries upon stimulation, Activity on flexing of arms and legs, and Respiration on whether the cry is weak and irregular or strong. Each item is scored 0, 1, or 2. A score of 7 is considered healthy. A reduction in the infant mortality rate was quickly reached with the use of the Apgar test. • After having attended more than 17,000 births by the late 1950s, Apgar had witnessed hundreds of cases of birth defects. She was interested in trying to correlate these with the Apgar scores. Leaving Columbia University, she enrolled in Johns Hopkins to obtain a Master of Public Health degree, with her focus in the field of teratology (the study of birth defects). In 1959, she began working at the March of Dimes Foundation, directing its research program for the prevention of birth defects. • Virginia Apgar published 60 scientific articles and many other shorter essays, as well as writing a book Is My Baby All Right? As if her work didn’t keep her busy enough, Apgar took time to play in amateur chamber quartets and even tried her hand at making instruments, completing two violins, a viola, and a cello. She loved gardening, fly-fishing, golfing, and enjoyed collecting stamps. In her 50s, Virginia started taking flying lessons. She passed away in 1974 from liver disease.
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Central City Food Banks Sat., Dec. 19th, 7:00 pm -9:00 pm Lynn Dunn Memorial buildingFair grounds in Central City The bluegrass band, Damascus Road, is playing. A free-will offering will be taken. All money goes to the two food banks. It's being sponsored by Linn County Fair, United Church of Christ, 1st United Methodist Church,and Prairie Chapel Methodist Church.
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Most of us have licked a Christmas seal and attached it to our holiday greetings at some point over the years. This week, Tidbits brings you the history of this little stamp. • In the early 1900s, tuberculosis, or consumption as it was frequently called, was the leading cause of death in the United States, killing about 110,000 every year. This infectious disease, which attacks the lungs, was being spread through coughs and sneezes and any other respiratory fluids found in the air. • The first signs of success with the disease were achieved by isolating patients in sanatoriums. In 1907, a small sanatorium in Delaware was experiencing an extreme financial shortfall and would have to shut down if $300 could not be raised to save it. A doctor at the facility explained the dilemma to his cousin, Emily Bissell, who regularly volunteered there. • Emily, who was an experienced fundraiser, had recently heard about an effort in Denmark that raised money for children with TB. A Danish journalist who had lost six brothers to the disease had written an article about the idea of selling small stamps during the Christmas season. Four million seals were sold in Denmark that first year, 1904. The idea seemed perfect as a fundraiser for the tiny Delaware sanatorium. • Emily sketched a few designs, finally settling on a cross centered in a halfwreath of holly above the words “Merry Christmas.” She borrowed $40 to have 50,000 seals printed and campaigned vigorously for the cause, using the slogan “Stamp Out Tuberculosis!”, even winning the endorsement of President Theodore Roosevelt. • On December 7, 1907, a table was set up in the Wilmington, Delaware post office. The seals were also offered with newspapers. Another printing was necessary when the first one ran out. Selling the seals for a penny each raised over $3,000 during that holiday season. • By the following year, Emily’s Christmas seals had grown to a national program directed by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and the American Red Cross. Norway, Sweden, and Iceland quickly followed Denmark’s example as well, and in the years following, the Seals had spread throughout every major country in Europe, followed by Canada, Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia. The seals began including the international symbol against TB, the double-barred cross of Lorraine in 1919, a symbol still in use on current seals. Today, there are nearly 100 lung associations around the world that issue Christmas Seals. • Christmas Seals are a type of “Cinderella stamp,” a term applied to “anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by a government postal administration.” A Cinderella stamp cannot “carry the mail.” • Although initially designed for fundraising for tuberculosis, in the mid-20th century, the mission was expanded to include research into all respiratory diseases, including lung cancer and asthma. Tuberculosis is responsible for more deaths in the past 200 years than any other disease.
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