Word: afterbirthers
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...with the complete opening of the womb's mouth, averages 12 hr. in first pregnancies, 4 hr. thereafter. Second stage ends with the baby's delivery, average, 4 to 6 hr. in first pregnancies, 1 to 4 hr. thereafter. Third stage ends with the expulsion of the afterbirth, should take only a few minutes...
...infants get their immunity from their mother's blood or milk. But there are arguments against that conception. A more tenable theory: the rapidly multiplying fetal and infant cells may establish a general protection called ''tissue immunity." If so, opined Drs. McKhann & Chu, the placenta (afterbirth) must contain substances which would prevent measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and infantile paralysis in older children. With this idea they made some water extracts of after-births...