Investigating Diseases No One's Got

I love the doctors — they are dears; But must they spend such years and years Investigating such a lot Of illnesses which no one's got, When everybody, young and old, Is frantic with the common cold? And I will eat my only hat If they know anything of that!1 IN this issue of the Journal, Carpenter, Carnes, and Anast report the results of intensive studies of one patient with two rare illnesses — Wilson's disease and hypoparathyroidism. The authors conclude from their experimental data and from the very low probability that both disorders could have occurred independently in . . .