Infancy: A Happier Ending
During this same time frame, Dr. Fritz Talbot recalled cases with much happier endings. He related, "I remember that twenty-eight years ago [that is, in 1913] in Dusseldorf, Germany, I made a visit to a hospital, and there was a very fat old lady wandering around the ward with a baby on her hip, a very measly baby. I asked the doctor there what she was doing with the baby, and he said that whenever he had a baby for whom he and his associates had done everything they knew how to do medically and were unsuccessful, he gave the baby to Old Anna, and told her to take it in charge, and that Old Anna was always successful." Feeling emotionally secure in the arms of another is what every human being needs to thrive. This is not only true for infants but, as we shall see, for humans beings at every stage of life.
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