Word: caesarean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caesarean Sirs...
Your wonderful pictures of a Caesarean section [TIME, Dec. 9 ] thrilled me greatly since I have had the same operation (with a local anesthetic). Everyone should look at these pictures with a deep reverence and respect for the skilled surgeons we now have who yearly save the lives of many mothers and babies, who otherwise would never have a chance...
...mill slicings while Superintendent Jolly, surgeons and nurses gave him every assistance. Toward the end of the morning, as a patient was being wheeled away, Superintendent Jolly turned to Photographer Miller, remarked: "Now here is something special you might want to see. The next one is a Caesarean section."* Photographer Miller clicked eagerly while the patient was anesthetized, her abdomen opened, her baby drawn out feet first; followed through while the baby, a healthy 7 lb. boy, was removed, washed, footprinted for identification. When Editor Pooley shuffled through the results of the morning's work, he immediately pounced...
...Caesarean section, for removal of a baby from the womb by means of abdominal incision when normal delivery is dangerous or impossible, is one of the most famed and spectacular of major operations. The classic Caesarean involves an incision from the umbilicus to the pubis, through the abdominal wall, peritoneum and uterine wall. The Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesar, who by legend was thus delivered from his mother. First actually recorded Caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by a Swiss pig-gelder on his wife...
Unthinkable is it that the august New York Times would ever so far forget its reputation for impeccable taste as to print photographs of a Caesarean section. The Times is also stiffly proud of its reputation for impeccable typography. Last week its readers discovered which reputation the Times prizes more highly. On Page 1 of the Times's Sunday Book Review section appeared a typographical botch which any country editor would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew...