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who was just being started on solid foods, and whose diet

was therefore the object of much attention. D r . M o r i a r t y

ordered the mother to put a teaspoon of food on the little

girl's plate, and to take absolutely no notice as to whether

or not she ate i t . For six days the child continued her ab-

stinence, always leaving the table

with the remark, " I didn't eat my

dinner, mama." According to her

instructions, the Mother replied,

4T "Well, it doesn't matter. The doc-
tor said you didn't have to eat."
.The turning point came on the
seventh day when the child rushed
in from play with the announce-
ment that she was starving, and
couldn't they have dinner right
away i f she helped set the table.

Psychological disturbances also

figure in the troubles of much

younger children. One of D r .

" Yes, I am M o r i a r t y ' s most difficult cases was
Nancy Ann that of a fifteen-months' old boy.
H i s extreme fits of temper occur-
Leland."

ring f r o m five to fifteen times a day,

had been diagnosed by several doc-

tors as epileptic fits. Suspicious of such a diagnosis i n a child so young,

D r . M o r i a r t y approached the case f r o m a psychological angle. She

immediately discovered that his fits occurred only when refused some-

thing he asked for. She removed the child f r o m its home to the care of

a special nurse. Even though the nurse doubted the wisdom of the

course when she observed the child's first fit, she f a i t h f u l l y followed the

doctor's orders, which were to leave the room immediately on the ap-

proach of one of the spells. The child upon discovering that no one was

watching, soon stopping choking and frothing at the mouth and turned

to playing. I n a week he was completely cured.

One realizes, before hearing many such cases, w h y D r . M o r i a r t y is'j
famous not only in Minneapolis, but throughout the entire Northwest,
and w h y she is called into consultation by other doctors upon cases that
take her to North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and all parts of;
Minnesota. N o r does her list of activities end here. She instructed
a olass at the University Dispensary twice a week
for a long time. She teaches Pediatrics t o a class
of Senior medics at the General Hospital. After
J u l y she extended her teaching to half-days.

So i t is little wonder that Cecile M o r i a r t y , doctor,
psychologist, teacher, and not least of all, a charm-
ing woman finds her place well to the front i n Tau's H a l l of Fame.