Word: caesarean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland distracted young Horatio Randall shot his pretty estranged wife Elsie in the head. Elsie was almost nine months pregnant. Less than ten minutes before she died, Surgeon Clarence Augustus De Puy delivered her by Caesarean section of a robust...
...gossip is Sylvia (Ilka Chase), a gabby troublemaker who has her children by Caesarean section, preserves her bosom with applications of icewater and camphor, cheats on her husband and lands in Reno. About half the more prominent members of The Women's, dramatis personae land there with her in Act II. There they meet an indelible character named the Countess de Lage (Margaret Douglass). The Countess has married three fortune-hunters and a Reno cowhand, and she still puts her faith in "l'Amour." Mary Haines, hoping until the last that her husband will call her back, succeeds...
...oldest Egyptian mummy known is a pregnant woman. After her gravid body was dried and bandaged, 4,600 years ago, her husband encased her in a tomb which was opened only last month. Ancient doctors used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
...pains of childbirth have been grossly exaggerated in the minds of American women . . . by irresponsible allusions to the dangers of childbirth and by sensational magazine articles which have gone so far as to advocate Caesarean section as the only humane method of delivery...
Back in Chicago last week Dr. DeLee looked about for material for a new cinema to be called Local Anesthesia in Obstetrics. He performs Caesarean sections under local anesthesia but thinks that "the increasing tendency to perform Caesarean section is to be condemned. There are too many of these operations being done by those who do not know how to do them or to discover reasons for their necessity...