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...hope that her child, at least, might be saved. The doctor attending her refused. But Jesse Bennett was a physician himself. He put his wife to sleep with a whopping dose of laudanum. She lay on planks set across two barrels. One sweep of the knife laid open the abdomen and soon a baby girl was extracted. Before he closed the incision, Dr. Bennett removed both ovaries, remarking that he "would not be subjected to such an ordeal again...
Family Doctor Meyer Cohen listened to Stanley's chest, heard noises suggesting bronchial pneumonia; Stanley's temperature was 101, his abdomen was rigid, and he had lost 20 lbs. Dr. Cohen insisted that the patient should be in a military hospital, arranged for his admission to Great Lakes Naval Hospital (where, under unification, the Navy cares for Army patients). There was a delay, however, while the family waited for a Chicago Tribune photographer. On admission, Stanley's temperature was 103. He had virus pneumonia...
...Clifford Frederick Bramer was receiving patients at the Pueblo (Colo.) Clinic when the nurse announced that a Mrs. Vernon Hawley wanted to see him. Mrs. Hawley was a big woman (220 Ibs.); awkwardly she got ready and lay on the examining table. A large mass protruded from her abdomen and hung down to her thighs. At first Dr. Bramer thought it was a tumor. Then he thought of hernia. Closer examination disclosed the outline of a baby. He asked why she had come to see him, and Izene Hawley calmly replied. "This thing is heavy and I'm past...
...Hawley was carrying what seemed to be a normal baby in an abnormal place -outside the abdomen. The fetus had slipped through a weak spot in the abdominal wall, left by an incision made years ago for a gall-bladder operation. Such cases are uncommon, but not unknown. Far more uncommon was the way Mrs. Hawley had carried the baby without medical attention...
...years his small body had been racked with cancer. Doctors had removed one of Stephen's kidneys in an attempt to halt its relentless advance. But the cancer spread through the child's abdomen and into his chest. By last January it had destroyed one of his lungs. Two weeks ago Stephen was put into an oxygen tent. Doctors told his parents the end was near. Hugh Ridlon, 28, an ex-G.I., and his wife Helen asked Stephen what he wanted most in the world. "Another Christmas tree," he answered. Last week, soon after...