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...woman need have no more than one child unless she wants to. Except for her first pregnancy, she may have an abortion performed at any time during the first two and a half months of term. Curetting without anesthesia is preferred to drugs. The doctor "is recommended to discourage a woman from abortion if there are no social, economic or medical reasons for it, and particularly if she has fewer than three children, or has adequate means for supporting another child." Usually there is no charge for the abortion, or at the most 40 rubles ($20). The operation occupies three...
...have obstetricians gone wrong? Chiefly, said the committee, in resorting to operations and anesthesia. Competent authorities say that in only 5% of all deliveries need the physician do anything but help Nature. Yet in 67 New York hospitals the investigators found that nearly 25% of deliveries were made with the aid of instruments. To these mothers death came five times as frequently as to those who bore their children naturally. Said the committee: "A certain indictment of those undertaking interference" with Nature...
This was before germs, antisepsis and chloroform anesthesia were discovered. Doctors were often obliged to steal or buy corpses for anatomical studies. They had very little precise knowledge of what goes on within the body of the living man. Organic chemistry was just blossoming out of alchemy, with only 49 of the 92 elements recognized. Surgeon Beaumont had little beyond simple Nature to help him treat Alexis St. Martin...
...Hagan of Pittsburgh the problem was more complex than that. He thought that children often confuse the numbness of local anesthesia with real pain, that a lifelong antipathy often springs from the child's first visit to the dentist. To avoid this he recommended that all patients under five years of age be given a general anesthetic. He also urged that adults whose fears cannot otherwise be quieted be put to sleep before undergoing a dental operation...
...observed them afterwards and they seemed as comfortable as any of our other animals. No incisions are made on top of the tail. If flexor muscles were cut eight or ten inches from the base of the tail it would look really phooey. Incisions are made under profound anesthesia and with a knife so small that the slit in the skin can scarcely be seen. I don't know where you got your description but if New York vets are as bad as that I pity the horses. If you tried to find out something about our profession...