PEDIATRICS Vol. 90 No. 1 July 1992, pp. 154-156
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The Battered Child at Thirty: What Can Be Learned From Saul Krugman at Eighty?

Richard D. Krugman MD1

1 From the University of Colorado School of Medicine and The C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. 1205 Oneida St. Denver, CO 80220

Some years ago—10 to be exact—at a 70th birthday celebration for Saul Krugman, I reviewed his impressive CV and pointed out that the field of avian biology had lost a great star. His first paper was on the use of ethylene glycol vapor to eliminate Newcastle disease virus, a pathogen of chickens.1 A further review of the Senior Krugman's CV reveals an early case report that may well have been one of the first reported cases of sexual abuse of infants—a case of herpetic vulvovaginitis in a 6-month-old infant.2 It was an unusual and an interesting case. Thirty-five years later one would at least have to evaluate the possibility of sexual abuse in this infant, and it likely would have been discussed as part of the paper. Several years ago (23 actually), when I began my pediatric career, I was occasionally asked whether I was related to Saul Krugman. Those of us who have followed a similar professional path to one or both of our parents are used to being asked such questions. Ken McIntosh, David Hodes, Karen, Allison, and Jennifer Kempe, to name a few, have all faced quizzical looks when we were introduced to a group of pediatricians as if to say: "I know that name, but you don't look old enough to be...." Each of us deals with this relationship differently and indeed will do so at different stages of our lives. When I was asked the inevitable question, was I related to Saul Krugman, I used to respond, "yes, he is my wife's father-in-law."

Submitted on January 21, 1992
Accepted on March 10, 1992